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PRINCETON 



THE CLASS OF EIGHTEEN SEVENTY-SIX 




Record Number XI 



1921 






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CLASS OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES 

President 
Robert Edwin Bonner 

Vice-President 
Henry E. Davis 

Secretary and Treasurer 
Henry L. Harrison 

Executive Committee 
Robert E. Bonner Wm. Allen Butler 

Henry E. Davis Henry M. Russell 

Henry L. Harrison Spencer Weart 

Record Committee 
Henry L. Harrison Edward D. Lyon 

William J. Henderson Henry M. Russell 



TO THE CLASS OF 76 

(A Greeting from Prof. Theodore W. Hunt) 

On this forty-fifth anniversary of your graduation from 
Old Nassau, I extend to you all a hearty and affectionate 
greeting, and am glad to recall together with you the pleas- 
ant memories of years ago. 

It was a most fortunate coincidence for your class that 
you entered college in the fall of '72 when the McCosh Ad- 
ministration, opening in '68, was fully established and suc- 
cessfully realizing the educational reforms demanded by 
the new conditions of the time. 

Fellowships and elective courses had been founded, 
graduate studies introduced, a School of Science instituted, 
library facilities increased, the college curriculum enlarged, 
the Literary Societies quickened with newness of life, the 
Faculty enriched by such efficient teachers as Packard and 
Brackett, Cornwall and Murray, and all the appliances ger- 
mane to an institution of learning multiplied as the condi- 
tions demanded. 

Into this new and inspiring collegiate environment you 
fortunately came and to your lasting credit appreciated it 
and utilized it to the full, leaving the college richer by your 
undergraduate presence and work, and maintaining through- 
out your entire course the best traditions of your Alma 
Mater. 

Two or three of your special characteristics as a class im- 
pressed me deeply as I recall your college days. One of 
them was the high grade of scholarship that as a body of 
students you sustained, an average I may say above that of 
the majority of college classes, some of your men evincing 



a distinctive type of student ability. As students I always 
found you in a state of preparedness, so that I was rarely, 
if ever, obliged to say to you in the language of the defender 
of Verdun, "They shall not pass." 

A further characteristic was that of an attractive person- 
ality as students, winning the confidence, esteem and affec- 
tion of your professors, a high sense of gentlemanly de- 
meanor, — a gracious and genuine regard for the opinions 
and feelings of others. It was this sense of fellowship 
and this expression of good nature that was so marked a 
feature of your relations as classmates and which so com- 
mended you to the student body at large. 

I feel a special indebtedness to your high sense of honor 
that, though I was in the early years of my professorship 
and somewhat of a novice in the high art of teaching, you 
were tolerant of my defects and gave me just the encourage- 
ment I needed. In fine there was a wholesomeness of 
spirit and bearing in the class that is as rare as it is re- 
freshing, and which goes far toward making the life of a 
man, or a company of men, congenial and potent for good. 
In these respects, it is gratifying to state that you set a high 
standard for your academic successors to follow and main- 
tain from age to age. 

To all this must be added the exceptionally good work 
you have done as a class in all these years since you left us 
to live your life and do your part in the wide world of 
service and sacrifice. In commercial and civic spheres, in 
the field of science and art, in journalism and education, in 
the secular professions of medicine and the law and the 
high calling of the Christian ministry, you have made a dis- 
tinctive record of intellectual ability and unselfish devotion 
to every worthy cause, not a few of your number reaching 
acknowledged eminence in their respective positions and vo- 
cations. 



Many years of honor and usefulness yet remain to you, 
we trust, and in that radical transformation through which 
this war-stricken world is now passing, there can be no 
question but that you will be a potent factor in all that 
pertains to the good of America and the world at large. 

The times are ominous and yet inspiring and promising, 
and in the memory of your college days and the years that 
have succeeded them, the men of '76 will always be found 
in the fight and at the front, if so be honor and justice, 
truth and right may be maintained. 

Long Life and Health and Happiness to you all as the 
years come and go, and never forget that your Alma Mater 
is ever watching . with maternal interest and affection her 
favorite "boys" of '76 as they meet their high responsibili- 
ties, and fulfill their missions in this Twentieth Century of 
the world's history and its imperative call for real men. 

Cordially yours, 

T. W. Hunt. 

Hamilton, New York, June 29, 1921. 
My dear "Czar" : 

I want to congratulate you on the complete success of 
our Reunion. It was a triumph and every thing went off 
beautifully. There was not a sign of friction or fault find- 
ing; on the contrary there was heard on all sides nothing 
but praise and commendation for the manner in which all 
the arrangements had been carried out. The reason for this 
happy condition was the untiring and thoroughly unselfish 
work on the part of yourself and the General. You have 
given yourselves to the task without thought of the labor 
and the splendid Reunion was the result. I know of no 
other class, either in Princeton or out of it, that has so 
loyal and devoted a President and Secretary as our own 
dear old '76. To your devotion to the interests of the Class 



we feel that the great success of our Reunions and the hold- 
ing of the boys together are most largely due. This is not 
flattery nor mere talk but the plain statement of the facts, 
and every one knows it. When I moved the thanks of the 
Class at the dinner and spoke of your labors I only voiced 
the knowledge of all. They all knew it though they did not 
speak of it and I was glad to be their mouthpiece. I think 
the last was the best Reunion we have ever had, and that 
we grow better in that line as we grow older, like good 
wine — though there is not much of the latter to judge by 
now. 

What delightful things are these Reunions ! It is a great 
joy to steal away from the cares and perplexities of life 
and renew for a few hours the love of our young manhood 
— which has never grown cold — and promise its continu- 
ance. Then we go back again to our tasks and duties re- 
freshed and strengthened and rejoicing that it has been our 
privilege to be a member of so noble a band of splendid 
men. We certainly have a splendid band of men and we 
acknowledge no superiors. They are men of the highest 
standing and of the most exalted character and one should 
be proud to have the privilege of belonging to such an ag- 
gregation. I also think the others feel as I do, as is evi- 
denced by the large percentage present at the Reunions and 
by the delightful feeling of brotherly affection that is over 
them all. This is the fine, old spirit of '76 and is remarked 
by all who come in contact with us. In the many hours of 
solitude and loneliness the memory of the dear boys of '76 
and our happy experiences together come to me like a bene- 
diction and drive away the gloom and sadnesss. By your 
kindness you boys have given me many new experiences to 
brighten the coming days, and from my heart I thank you 
all. 

As ever in '76, 

Henry M. Russell. 

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PERSONAL HISTORY 

Graduates, Academic 
DUDLEY S. ANNESS, A.B., LL.B. No report. 

HON. J. FRANK BALL, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

Frank is still devoting himself to the practice of law. He 
reports the birth of two grandchildren : James Ball Schlat- 
ter, November 14, 191 7, and Hugo Schlatter, June 18, 1920. 
Two granddaughters were reported in the last Record. 

In the war Frank was active in the sale of Bonds and in 
Red Cross work. Mrs. Ball was a member of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the Council of Defence of Delaware, and 
did much in the Y. W. C. A. and the Red Cross. Mrs. Ethel 
Ball Staniar, their daughter, was Captain and organizer of 
the Red Cross Motor Corps of Delaware. 

REV. JAMES MORRISON BARKLEY, A.B., A.M., 

(both Princeton), D.D., LL.D. (both Alma College). 
"Dear General: 

"I resigned the pastorate of the Forest Avenue Presby- 
terian Church of Detroit and was released by November 
20, 191 6, just thirty years to the day from accepting it. 
Was made pastor emeritus. I am busy aiding Alma Col- 
lege, preaching, making addresses and doing whatever my 
hand finds to do. I am happy. I love the dear boys of '76. 
God bless every dear fellow. 

"Two grandchildren have been added to the three re- 



ported in 1916: Sallie Chandler Sibley, born June 29, 1917, 
and Elizabeth Barkley Sibley, March 10, 1919. 

"My son Earl served nearly two years in France, Chief 
of the Dental Department at Base Hospital No. 17, A. E. F., 
as Captain. His commission as Major arrived after he had 
resigned in April 1919. My son-in-law, Dr. F. E. McClure, 
was a Reserve Surgeon Volunteer on call, Mrs. McClure 
was a very active official in Red Cross work. Mr. Sibley 
was a Four Minute Man and member of the American 
Protective League. I made addresses for the Y. M. and 
Y. W. C. A. and for the Red Cross. Made two attempts 
to break into the army, but the authorities 'lowed I was too 
old for that." 

REV. SYLVESTER W. BEACH, A.B., D.D. 

"Princeton, N. J., July 18, 1921. 
"Dear General: 

"Your fears that I might escape before doing my duty 
by the Record are entirely unfounded. You may always 
be perfectly sure that I will not fail to take advantage of 
the pages of our wonderful Record to secure the enviable 
measure of publicity that every member of the old class de- 
sires and deserves. 

"But I hardly know what I can add to the recital edited 
by our worthy Secretary and duly extended in the last num- 
ber of the Record. I am not making history very fast, but 
I am only pegging away along the same old lines that I have 
followed from the beginning. 

"My children, however, belong in a different category. 
They are regarded by all who have a knowledge of their 
worth and work as making a success in life that may be 
called somewhat brilliant. The eldest daughter, Mary Hol- 
lingsworth, has been now for several years General Man- 
ager of the Junior Red Cross Work in Italy. Her fitness 

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for this particular task was acquired by long training as 
Secretary in the American Red Cross in France and after- 
wards in Bulgaria. The work of the Junior Red Cross is 
supported by the Public School children of America and the 
budget reaches several hundred thousand dollars. There 
are twenty-one units in Italy where the operations of the 
J. R. C. center. These are the principal cities. In each unit 
there is a school for war orphans, where not only the pri- 
mary subjects usually given in the public schools are taught, 
but also vocational training is given, so that the orphans are 
being prepared for useful work in the various activities of 
life. They are taken care of until able to make their own 
way. My daughter makes a circuit of Italy about once 
every two months and has supervision of all the Schools 
and Homes. Her headquarters are in Florence and she is 
often called to Paris for consultation with the Executive 
Committee for all Europe. 

"Our second daughter, Sylvia Woodbridge Beach, was 
also Secretary in Red Cross and was with her sister, Hol- 
lingsworth, for a year in Bulgaria. Returning to Paris in 
1919, she decided to open a Book Shop when she found the 
opportunity of buying out a successful shop. For two 
years the Shop has been in operation, and the growth of 
business has made necessary removal to a larger store and 
more central location on Rue de L'Odeon. Her Shop is 
unique in the line of books that it carries in stock, and in 
rare editions that are picked up wherever they may be 
found. The Shop has attracted the attention of book lovers 
throughout Paris, especially the professors and students in 
the University. It has been noticed by lengthy editorials in 
the Paris Herald and other papers, and in the Reviews and 
literary magazines in the United States. 

"Our youngest daughter, Eleanor, is assisting her sister 
in the business of the Shop. Both have lived so long in 

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Paris that it may be called home to them, and the friends 
and associations of many years make the life there pecul- 
iarly congenial and happy. 

At this moment Mrs. Beach is in Paris on a short visit, 
and I am expecting to join the family there before the end 
of the summer. 

"Thus boasting of our daughters, I am advertising myself 
to the greatest possible advantage. I think the class all 
know so well the work I am doing in Princeton that I need 
not add a word concerning it. Let it suffice to say that I 
am as busy as the day is long, and that the older I grow 
the heavier become the burdens and the greater the joy of 
service for Christ and His Church. 

"I cannot close this greeting without saying how de- 
lighted I was to meet all the boys at our reunion. I do 
not know where you would find 33 men like those that 
foregathered in the dear old Goldie headquarters. The 
reunion was a success in all respects and in every detail, 
and, with praise to our great President and splendid Secre- 
tary, I shall carry the memory of the scenes and delights of 
that regathering until the end of my days. 

"I do not yet know the date of my sailing, for the con- 
tingency about it all is the uncertainty of getting passage 
home at dates necessary for engagements on this side. 

"Until we meet again and always believe me, dear Gen- 
eral, in all the bonds of '76, 

"Your devoted classmate, 

"Sylvester W. Beach, 
" 'Variety.' " 

An interesting incident in Beach's life that he does not 
chronicle was a reception tendered him and Mrs. Beach on 
February 11, 1921, to commemorate the fifteenth annivers- 
ary of his pastorate. According to The Packet, the suc- 
cessor to The Princeton Press, it was "one of the most im- 

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pressive congregational gatherings that has ever taken place 
here. It was attended by over four hundred persons." To 
Dr. Beach were presented a purse and a silver loving cup 
filled with gold pieces. 

During the fifteen years the additions to membership of 
the church have been by confession of faith 308, by certifi- 
cate 404. The membership is 674, a net gain of 253. For 
church support in fifteen years there was raised the sum of 
$207,445, for benevolent objects $163,452, a total of $370,- 
897. Dr. Beach had delivered 1950 sermons and addresses 
and made 9000 pastoral calls. 

Long may his "bow abide in strength and the arms of his 
hands be made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of 
Jacob." 

ROBERT EDWIN BONNER, A.B., A.M. 

"Lenox, Mass., Sept. 1, 192 1. 
"My dear 'General' : 

"Answering your formal questions, my full name is 
Robert Edwin Bonner. I reside in Lenox about eight 
months of the year, where the latch-string will always be 
out to any member of '76. My business address is 131 
East 46th Street, New York City. 

"All four of my children were in the war: My eldest, 
Griffith, was in the Canadian Army ; my second son, Hamp- 
ton, was in the U. S. Marines ; my third son, Kenneth, 
Princeton '14, Harvard Law '19, was a Second Lieutenant 
in the U. S. Infantry; my daughter Kate d'Auterroches 
worked as a nurse in the Belgian Army and served eight- 
een months in a hospital at La Panne, Belgium, right close 
to the firing line. 

"I retired from active work in the cement business in 
191 1. Since then I have been kept busy trying to keep 

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what I had rather than endeavoring to add to it; although 
my assets have grown somewhat since that date. 

"In recent years I have travelled south in the winter and 
sojourned in Lenox in the summer. 

"I go to Princeton whenever I can and generally see some 
baseball games in the spring, and the football games in the 
fall. Since 1881 I have missed attending only three Com- 
mencements. At these times I have met many men of the 
classes of the 'Seventies,' and more especially the members 
of the class of '70 — a class with wonderfully good fellow- 
ship, and one that is well disciplined by its efficient and 
energetic secretary, Dr. Joseph C. Guernsey, who as a boss 
can give the 'Czar' of '76 cards and spades. In apprecia- 
tion of and friendship for George Goldie the men of '70 
quite equal the members of '76. 

"I often told my good father that the alumni who did not 
go back to Princeton, especially at Commencement time, 
missed the best fruits of their curriculum. To go back and 
meet the old boys of our own class and the classes of our 
time is the most inspiring experience I can imagine. I am 
sure all the fellows who attended our '45th' will agree with 
me. 

"Each of our Reunions has been better as the years have 
gone by, and while we miss the dear fellows who have 
passed on to the other world, the fact that our members are 
fewer brings those of us who are left closer together. 

"Much of the success of our Reunions is due to the in- 
defatigable exertion of our efficient secretary. As Presi- 
dent of the Class I have been close enough to him to know 
the amount of work he has done. Many of the classes of 
Old Nassau have hard-working and capable secretaries, but 
I am sure the men of '76 will not admit that any class 
has a secretary superior to our own untiring and efficient 
'General.' 

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"With the hope, yes, with the belief that the Spirit of '76 
will make our '50th' even a greater success than our glo- 
rious '45th,' I am, as ever, my dear 'General,' 

"Faithfully yours, 

"Robert E. Bonner." 

HON. HARRINGTON BROWN, A.B., LL.B. 

" 'Tanglewood,' June 9, 1921. 
"Dear General: 

"It will be impossible for me to attend our Reunion, 
though sure that the renewal of acquaintance and the in- 
dulgence in reminiscences would prove most delightful. 
The distance is so great between Los Angeles and Prince- 
ton that it would require too much time to be devoted to 
such a jaunt, even with such a delightful goal ahead. Of 
course it goes without saying that I will not be on my pres- 
ent job for very many more years, possibly for not many 
more months. Quien sabe? So at the coming of our next 
Reunion I may have unlimited time at my disposal, and if 
I have unlimited 'dineros,' or whatever name you are pleased 
to apply to the 'filthy/ I sure will be on hand to 'whoop her 
up for '76.' 

"My work has grown enormously, as Los Angeles has 
grown prodigiously. I can appreciate the position of the 
man who started lifting the calf every day and in time 
found himself lifting a full grown bullock. To one ac- 
customed to hard work always it must be difficult to realize 
what a grind confining hard labor must be to the man who 
never before had been compelled to keep hours. One of 
our Princeton men here used to tell this one on me when 
I was conducting a business of my own, to the effect that 
he rang up my office and finding me out asked the tele- 
phone girl what were my office hours, and she replied 
'from eleven to twelve every other Thursday.' 

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"Recall me, General, to those of the old boys who knew 
me at all in the good old college days. Though a little 
trite — I will be with you in spirit. 

"If you do not mind, General, I feel like — and will — in- 
scribe myself, 

"Lovingly yours, 

" 'Mickey.' " 

As the above did not answer many of the Secretary's in- 
quiries for facts about "Mickey's" life and his family dur- 
ing the past five years, a further appeal produced the fol- 
lowing letter, as a sort of "footnote," to which it may be 
added that "Mickey" has a beautiful place in Los Angeles 
and that he has done much to make the section of the city 
in which he lives most attractive with the trees and shrubs 
he has set out. 

" 'Tanglewood', Aug. 22, 1921. 
"My dear 'General': 

"What a persistent cuss you are! I had no intention of 
writing anything for publication, having a horror of 'a chiel 
amang ye takin' notes and, faith, he'll prent it' and, also, 
because there was really nothing to chronicle. Now there 
is the item that I ceased to be Postmaster of Los Angeles 
on the first of this month and have been enjoying my lib- 
erty exceedingly. 

"The reason for this rather illegible chirography is to be 
found in the fact that the pen has been deserted for the 
pruning shears, the hoe and the hose. I have been leading 
the ideal life beneath the trees, amidst the shrubbery, sur- 
rounded by the blooming flowers. I, also, can find a place 
in the sun if desired. 

"Briefly, General, in reviewing the past forty or more 
years of my life and surveying its accomplishments — the 
planting of vineyards and orchards ; the building of oil 

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refineries ; the contributing to the upbuilding of a city from 
a pueblo of nine thousand souls to a metropolis of eight 
hundred thousand people (notice General, a pueblo with 
souls, a metropolis with people), I am only proud of the 
fact that I have made 'two blades of grass grow where one 
grew before' and have caused 'the desert to blossom as the 
rose.' I have the same wife, 'ever young and fair to me,' 
and none of my children are married. Dear old General, 
you deserve something better than this but be assured that 
the worse we treat you the better we love you, at least, such 
is the case with 

"Yours devotedly, 

" 'Mickey.' " 

JOHN P. BROWN, A.B. 

"Jai" is still with Charles Scribner's Sons at 597 Fifth 
Avenue, New York, and lives in Yonkers. His son Wen- 
dell, Princeton '13, served as an instructor in the Aviation 
Section at Princeton University, and later in relief work 
for the Near East Relief in Turkey; he was married in 
Constantinople, Turkey, January 15, 1920, to Miss Marga- 
ret Dixon. "Jai's" daughter Margaret was married to 
Henry Gibbs Gilland, Princeton '16, at Yonkers, June 11, 
1920. 

There are two grandchildren, Norman B. McWilliams, 
Jr., born September 11, 1920, and Barbara Brown, born 
January 20, 1921, the latter thus chronicled in the Prince- 
ton Alumni Weekly: "Barbara Brown claimed Mr. and 
Mrs. Wendell W. Brown as her parents on January 20 
last." 



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HON. OREN BRITT BROWN, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

"March 15, 1921. 
"Dear General : 

"I have no change to chronicle since my last report. I 
am still practising law in the firm of Brown and Frank and 
have enough business to keep me out of mischief. In the 
great war I did lots of work but none which I wish to 
record. During the past year I have been President of the 
Montgomery County Bar Association. 

"At the first meeting of the National Alumni Association 
of Princeton Clubs, held in St. Louis, February 11 and 12, 
1 92 1, I represented '76, along with W. McBath Smith. I 
had a nice visit with Dr. Hibben, whom we expect to en- 
tertain at Dayton the 27th of April with a Chamber of 
Commerce luncheon at noon and a dinner at the Dayton 
Club in the evening. We shall have quite an attendance 
and the moving pictures of Princeton, which I saw at St. 
Louis and are very fine. 

"I hope to be in Princeton on Friday, June 17, and re- 
main through the Reunion. 

"Yours in '76, 

"O. B. Brown." 

At the St. Louis meeting a resolution was offered pro- 
posing that a committee be appointed to investigate the 
question of removing the ban against college fraternities at 
Princeton. Oby was among those who opposed the resolu- 
tion and it was voted down. 

WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER, A.B., LL.B. 

Lie has been continuously engaged in the practice of his 
profession and the firm name has been changed from Butler, 
Wyckoff and Campbell, to Butler, Wyckoff and Reid. He 
reports the following marriages of children in the past five 

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years: Charles Terry Butler, M.D., Princeton '12, was 
married October 12, 1920, to Miss Dorothy Black, and Wil- 
liam Allen Butler, Jr., Princeton '09, was married at Rich- 
mond, Va., to Miss Vivienne Moncure, January 15, 192 1. 
There are two grandchildren, Maitland Dwight, Jr., born 
March 31, 1915, and Jacqueline Dwight, born May 12, 1919. 

As to war record, William Allen prepared a "Roll of 
Honor" for the ninetieth birthday of his mother, on which 
were the names of nineteen grandsons, granddaughters, and 
one grandson-in-law. Of William Allen's immediate family, 
Lyman, a veteran of the Seventh Regiment, re-enlisted, 
served as Corporal in the 7th Infantry in Texas during the 
Mexican campaign of 1916, was there promoted to Ser- 
geant, suffered impaired health from climatic conditions 
and was unable to take part in the great war. He died 
June 20, 1917. 

Charles, a physician, saw much service in France and in 
this country and was commissioned First Lieutenant. 

Miss Louise Butler qualified as a Red Cross Nurses' Aid, 
was a typist at Red Cross Home Service, and in 19 18 went 
to France in Y. M. C. A. Canteen work. 

Maitland Dwight, son-in-law, was enrolled in the U. S. 
Naval Reserve Force and saw service in an Aviation School 
for ground officers in Illinois and at the U. S. Naval Air 
Station at Hampton Roads. 

Wm. Allen's mother passed away February 15, 1919, in 
her ninety-first year; her five sons, her son-in-law, thirteen 
of her grandchildren and three grandsons-in-law were 
Princeton men, certainly a remarkable record. 

Wm. Allen is the author of a History of The Lawyers' 
Club, of which he was the organizer and the first and only 
President thus far in its history. He also prepared for 
private circulation two handsome In Memoriam volumes, 



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one of his son Lyman Collins Butler, the other of his 
mother. 

Wm. Allen was able to spend but a single night at Prince- 
ton during the Reunion, owing to the very serious illness 
of Mrs. Butler. The fears of the family that she would 
not recover were realized and she was released from her 
sufferings on July 2, 192 1. A devoted wife and mother 
she will long be mourned, and her husband and children have 
the deepest sympathy of a very large number of sorrowing 
friends. 

REV. ARTHUR B. CHAFFEE, A.B., A.M., D.D. 

May 12, 192;. 
"Dear General : 

"I am supplying as acting pastor and making myself as 
useful as possible. I cannot go to Princeton in June but 
send my sincere regrets, and best wishes for a fine meeting. 
I hope all the boys are well, happy, useful and good. Give 
them assurance of my continued interest. 

"Sincerely yours, 

"A. B. Chaffee " 

Of his children he reports that his daughter Margaret 
Moseley is living in London, England, her husband being 
the European representative of the Osborne Company of 
Newark, N. J. They have one son, Robert Chaffee Moseley, 
now five years old. 

Lawrence Chaffee enlisted in the Ordnance Department, 
was disabled in the line of duty and was honorably dis- 
charged. Kenneth Chaffee enlisted in the Ordnance De- 
partment, reached the rank of Sergeant, and saw service 
in France. 

The eldest son, Harold, is Industrial Secretary of the 
Y. M. C. A. at Moline, 111. James is vice-president of the 
Stollwerck Chocolate Company of Chicago, Eleanor is still 

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teaching at Muscatine, Iowa, Kenneth is an expert engi- 
neer in the Underwriters' Laboratories, Chicago, and Arthur 
is assistant secretary of the Shotwell Manufacturing Com- 
pany of Chicago. 

REV. WILLIAM NESBITT CHAMBERS, A.B., A.M., 
D.D. 

"Geneva-Suisse, June 21, 1917. 
"My dear Harrison: 

"The other evening the '76 Record was handed in. I as- 
sure you I was very pleased to receive it. I confess to have 
passed the midnight hour in looking it through. I con- 
gratulate you on your accomplishment of a big task well 
done. The class is under great obligations to you. I thank 
you for sending the book. It came via the Legation. A 
son of Dulles of '75 is a second Sec. in the Legation. He 
was interested and 'took the opportunity' of 'looking it 
through.' 

"I have been more busy here than I anticipated I would 
be. Since coming here I have been the intermediary for 
about one million dollars. I have never gone over five 
figures in keeping accounts before. It is a new experience 
to get up to seven figures, and when the dollars are turned 
into francs it taxes one's ability to add the columns. 

"It is most interesting to be in touch with both sides. 
With the prolongation of the war the need is intensified and 
the suffering is beyond the wildest imagination. It is grand 
to be in a position to assuage a little bit this awful human 
agony. 

"I am keeping well though I am not in love with Geneva 
climate. I was up in the mountains — Interlaken, Murren, 
etc., and it was fine. 

"With most cordial salutations, 

"As ever, 

"W. Nesbitt Chambers." 
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A letter dated Adana, August 5, 1920, and received in 
New York September 14, says : "Your circular of June 4 
just at hand. We have been isolated and for some weeks 
now only get letters by aeroplane — a limited post service. 

"Of all my forty years in Turkey this past year has been 
the worst and most trying and apparently the most barren 
of constructive results, and the end is not yet. I do not 
think we are in serious danger, but we are weary of this 
isolation and daily and nightly fusilade. Becoming ac- 
customed to the cracking of rifles and machine guns and 
the occasional whistling of bullets we are able to sleep at 
night fairly well. However the future is all unknown, and 
we are not sure whether the French will vacate in favor 
of the Turks or not." 

American Mission, Adana, Cilicia, 

February 22, 192 1. 
"My dear Harrison: 

"Your questionnaire for the Record of 192 1 is just at 
hand. I verily thought that the 35-40 period had enough 
of thrilling tragedy to cover a life time. But this period 
40-45 has been even more full of tragedy. 

"At the time of the last reunion I was acting as sec- 
retary of the Philadelphia Committee for Armenian Relief. 
I continued this service till the autumn, when I was called 
to Boston where I acted as secretary of the New England 
Committee for Armenian and Syrian Relief. This service 
was all in the interests of the American Committee for Re- 
lief in the Near East, more familiarly known as Near East 
Relief. On my way from Philadelphia to Boston, I had 
the great pleasure of spending a short time in Princteon on 
the invitation of the Philadelphian Society in carrying out 
the scheme of having a foreign missionary 'in residence' 
for a short period of time to interest students in foreign 



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missionary work. If I mistake not, I had the honor of 
being the first to render this service. 

"In the autumn of 19 17, I was commissioned by the Near 
East Relief Committee to proceed to Geneva and represent 
the American Board of Foreign Missions and the Relief 
Committee for the purpose of transmitting funds to the 
Near East and of keeping in touch with the Americans 
there by correspondence. In crossing from New York to 
Bordeaux we had the usual thrills because of submarines, 
being continually on the alert, with life-belts always at 
hand, all lights out at night, and we realized to some ex- 
tent the terrible possibilities. However I reached Geneva 
December 1, 191 7. I found the work there not only a re- 
sponsible commission but a most interesting and valuable 
service. 

"The following year Mrs. Chambers joined me in Geneva, 
where she rendered service in the Geneva Foyer of the 
British Y. M. C. A. for British prisoners interned in 
Switzerland — a very interesting bit of work. In February, 
1919, three months after the armistice, we left Geneva for 
Turkey. After an intersting journey via Marseilles, Port 
Said and Alexandretta we reached Adana. Of the Ameri- 
can missionaries, Dr. Cyril Haas and Miss Grace Towner 
had remained in Adana during the war. We found them 
well, but wearied from the strain. They had ministered to 
many people, including many of the British prisoners from 
Kut-el-Amarna. 

"Shortly after my arrival I was appointed Director of 
Near East Relief work for the Adana province, in which 
capacity I served for about a year. The work was very 
extensive. The remnants of the Armenian exiles soon be- 
gan to pour into Adana. Many of them were in absolute 
destitution. Assisting exiles to resettle in their villages and 
start work again for their rehabitation and reconstruction 

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of home and farms, means a great deal of thought and 
labor. There were a large number of widows and orphans 
that had to be cared for. As the N. E. R. had a large force 
to execute its plans and as my missionary work was more 
than sufficient to tax the strength of one man, I withdrew 
from the work of the N. E. R. and devoted myself to the 
task of reconstructing missionary work as much as possible. 
So far, of the eleven congregations formerly under my 
superintendence, only five have been reconstructed. Some 
of the others have entirely disappeared and some have been 
unable to return to their homes. The Had j in district that 
was associated with the Adana district in administration, 
had ten congregations before deportation. These homes 
have all been wiped out. We are still unsettled, waiting for 
some sign of assured tranquility and peace. 

"After the armistice, the British and French occupied this 
territory together. Theoretically the Turkish government 
was functioning, while the British were in military occupa- 
tion and the French in civil control — a strange conglomera- 
tion. Later the British withdrew, leaving the French in oc- 
cupied Syria and Cilicia. The French were forced to with- 
draw from some parts, such as Marash, because of the op- 
position of the Turkish Nationalists. Marash suffered ter- 
ribly. During the summer Adana was subjected to attack, 
and we endured close siege for a month. Railroad connec- 
tion with both west and east on the Baghdad Railroad was 
cut, and has not been restored. However, considerable 
military operations were undertaken, and the line through 
Mersine, Tarsus, Adana to Deurt Yol and Alexandretta 
has been restored and is being operated by the French. The 
barbed wire entanglements, breast-works, trenches, dug- 
outs and detachments of Algerian, Senegalese and French 
soldiers are daily reminders that peace has not yet been 
restored, and it may be long delayed. One cannot boast of 

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the work done by the 'Entente and Associated Powers' since 
the armistice. Wondering what the next critical event will 
be we await developments 'with a hope that scarce knows 
itself from fear.' (Feb. 22.) Just now all eyes are turned 
to the London Conference. 

"In this district we are meeting the emergency of our 
missionary work, and holding ourselves in readiness for 
reconstruction when work becomes aggressively and effi- 
ciently possible. In that respect the outlook gives us much 
hope. 

"To statistics of last record add: Second grandchild 
born — Mary Averett Seelye, March 8, 1919. 

"Since the autumn of 1910 the Seelyes have been with 
the American University at Beirut, wmere Mr. Seelye is 
instructor in philosophy. He served for two years as war 
chaplain in the U. S. Army, but was not sent to France. 

"Dorothea was graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1919. She 
spent a year at Columbia and took her M.A. in 1920. She 
then joined the N. E. R. and served in Constantinople for 
a few months. Withdrawing from that she joined the 
Y. W. C. A. and is now working with that organization 
here in Adana as representative of the Bryn Mawr Service 
Corps. 

"In spite of advancing years and strenuous service in the 
midst of turmoil and uncertainty and war-like surroundings, 
my wife and I are in good physical form and are doing full 
duty, though the doctors give a caution once in a while to 
go slow. What a satisfying pleasure it would be to be at 
the reunion in June ! But that is quite outside of the pos- 
sibilities. Most cordial salutations and fraternal greeting 
to all the fellows of 76. May the spirit of '^6 once more 
assert itself not only in America but throughout the na- 
tions, and the world be made 'safe for democracy,' by the 
dissemination and acceptance of the principles that lie at 

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the foundation of the Commonwealth of Jesus Christ — the 
Kingdom of truth in the world. 

"Yours in the bond of 'j6. 

"W. Nesbitt Chambers." 

"P.S. — March 8th; Indisposition and doctor's orders put 
me 'hors de combat' for a couple of weeks, and hence this 
delay in posting this. I am about well and at my desk 
again. Governmental affairs are moving a bit. French 
columns are working up the Amanus Mountains to the 
east of us, and there is a rumour that the railroad as far 
as Aleppo may be opened in two weeks. Aintab has been 
reoccupied and Marash may be. A rather bloody skirmish 
took place in 'blood valley' about fifty miles east of us; 
and the Turkish Nationalists were badly knocked about. 
These 'piping times of peace' afford us much opportunity 
for speculation and consideration. We still await the out- 
come of the London Conference. W. N. C." 

REV. CHARLES B. CHAPIN, A.B., A.M., D.D. 

"Spartanburg, S. C, June 10, 192 1. 
"My dear General: 

"I have delayed replying to your communications and that 
of Bonner in the sneaking hope that I might be able to at- 
tend our forty-fifth anniversary, but that hope I must now 
give up. Distance, expense, and the Summer School here 
in which I am to teach make it impossible. If I could go 
by aeroplane and if I had all the money I wanted, I might 
accomplish it, but not otherwise. I am more sorry than 
I can say, for I would enjoy the reunion keenly. 

"I do not find it easy or agreeable to fill out question- 
naires, and so I will briefly give my history since the last 
report in my own words and way. . 

"As to physical vigor, I can honestly say that I feel as 

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young and frisky as when I graduated. One of my friends 
here not long ago said to another friend as he saw me 
walking the streets, 'Dr. Chapin walks along just like a 
college boy, only he has more "pep." ' And in tennis I have 
been unbeaten hereabouts, after playing most of the men in 
Camp Wadsworth and some of the best players in town. 

"I served as Chaplain under the National Service Com- 
mission of the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A., the last ten 
months here at Camp Wadsworth, in which work my wife 
was my able assistant. She was called 'Mother Chapin' by 
the soldiers and was greatly beloved. God wonderfully 
blessed our work with the soldiers. 

"For the past two years I have been Professor of Bibli- 
cal Literature in Converse College, this city. Converse is 
one of the Class A. colleges for women in the South, and 
has a splendid class of girls. Never in all my life have I 
enjoyed Christian work so much as I am enjoying teaching 
the Bible to the future homemakers of the South. If I 
can give them a new love for the Bible and a new knowl- 
edge of how to study it for themselves, I am working for 
future generations. This is my vision, this my prayerful 
purpose, and I am hoping that I may make it the crown- 
ing work of my life. 

"In addition to the above, I am doing missionary work 
in two mill villages hereabouts, so that I am occupied seven 
days a week. 

"My only son is professor of Sociology in Smith Col- 
lege, Northampton, Mass., where he is making a brilliant 
success. He has already written several books on his chosen 
subject, one of which is being used as a text-book in some 
forty colleges and is studied in China. Since our last re- 
port two more children have been born to him, a boy and a 
girl, so that I am the grandfather of three of the finest 
specimens of childhood that can anywhere be found. 

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"Again expressing my keen regret at my inability to at- 
tend the Reunion, and with love to all the fellows, I am, 
"Faithfully yours in the Bonds of '76, 

"Charlie." 

A few items, culled from other letters, may be added to 
the above. In 1918 Charlie resigned from his pastorate at 
South Bethlehem, Pa., and received an appointment as 
Chaplain under the National Service Commission of the 
Presbyterian Church. After a short time at Fort Hancock, 
Sandy Hook, he went to Camp Wadsworth, S. C, where he 
and Mrs. Chapin did a notable work. "Over 2000 boys and 
nurses became members of the Pocket Testament League 
for us, and over 1200 signed decision cards." 

The mother of a soldier, a patient in the hospital at Camp 
Wadsworth, wrote the Secretary of the National Service 
Commission, July 23, 1919, as follows : 

"On my visit here to my son, I could not help but be 
impressed with the noble and beautiful work of Dr. and 
Mrs. Chapin. 

"These boys are sick and lonely, away from their homes, 
and because of the nature of their disease (tuberculosis), 
they have very few visitors. If it were not for the daily 
visits of those 'Angels of Mercy,' Dr. and Mrs. Chapin, I 
think many of them would despair altogether. 

"They are closing the eyes of the dying, cheering and 
encouraging the convalescents, and ministering in every 
way possible to those dear boys who counted their lives 
nothing when their country was in peril, and who are now 
suffering from the consequences." 



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REV. HARRISON CLARKE, B.A., M.A. 

"Denver, Colorado, May 30, 192 1. 
"Dear Classmate : 

"Nothing new since last report. I have been living 
quietly here in Denver. 

"Grandchildren : Roderick Douglas Clarke, born April 
30, 1918, at Los Angeles, California; Richard Vincent 
Clarke, born Nov. 12, 1919, at Denver, Colorado. 

"All the children were more or less directly or indirectly 
connected with the World's War Work. 

"Grace was teacher in the High School at Grand Junc- 
tion, Colo., on the western slope, near the Utah line, and 
worked in the Red Cross, the Y. W. C. A., and helped the 
draft board in its clerical work, besides buying war stamps 
and liberty bonds. Robert was two years in the Union 
Iron Works of San Francisco, Cal., making submarines, 
destroyers and other war toys for Uncle Sam. 

"Harry was eighteen months on a U. S. transport on the 
Pacific, making six round trips from San Francisco to 
Honolulu, the island of Guam (the ocean here is only six 
miles deep), the Philippines, Nagasaki, Japan, thence back 
to San Francisco. The last trip was to Vladivostok, Siberia, 
carrying 2000 soldiers for Russia. 

"Paul enlisted in the Motor division of the Quarter- 
master's Reserve Corps and was sent to Fort Logan, Hous- 
ton, Texas. In an examination he was one of very few 
who received 'A' grade and was made a sergeant. Was 
about to be 'sent over,' when the armistice was signed 
and the order rescinded. After giving Uncle Sam sixteen 
months of his time he was mustered out of service. 

"Francis was a Senior in the State University at Boulder, 
Colo., and enlisted in the Psychological division of the 
Medical Reserve Corps, and was sent to Ft. Oglethorpe, 

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Georgia. After three months was made a corporal and sent 
to Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan. After the sign- 
ing of the armistice, the troops were sent to Detroit. After 
spending sixteen months of his life in the service of Uncle 
Sam, he was mustered out, and in September, 1919, he 
entered the senior class in the State University and gradu- 
ated in June, 1920, B.A. cum laude. His war service made 
his graduation two years late. In Junior and Senior years 
he 'majored' in philosophy and psychology, and during the 
past year has been taking a post-graduate course in the 
same, in the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln. May go 
to Princeton for Ph.D. 

"Exceedingly sorry that I cannot attend the Class re- 
union. Kindest regards to all 'the boys' of '76 who may 
be there. 

"In the bonds of the golden '7o's, 

"I remain most sincerely, 

"Harrison Clarke." 

ARTHUR BLOOMFIELD CONGER. 

The Rev. Arthur Bloomfield Conger A.B., A.M., died at 
Spring Lake, N. J., Sept. 5, 1920, after an illness of several 
months. He was born in Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., March 2, 
1854, the son of Abraham Bogert Conger, A.B., Columbia 
'31, and Mary Rutgers McCrea Hedges Conger. Preparing 
at Lawrenceville School, Mr. Conger entered Princeton, 
graduated in 1876, and from Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary in 1879. In June, 1880, he was married to Mary 
Stockton, whose grandfather, Commodore Robert F. Stock- 
ton, was a classmate at Princeton of his grandfather, John 
Smith Conger, in the Class of 1809. To them were born 
eight children, one of whom died in infancy. Two of the 
sons are graduates of Princeton, Arthur M. Conger '09 and 
Richard S. Conger '10. Mrs. Conger died several years ago. 

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Mr. Conger, after graduation from the Seminary, be- 
came rector of St. John's Church, Newark, N. J., and in 
1883 of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont, Pa. 
During his ministry there of nearly thirty years he was in- 
strumental in securing the erection of a handsome new 
church and of a parish house. From 1912 to 191 6 he was 
rector of St. Paul's Church, Centreville, Md. Soon after 
retiring from the last charge, Mr. Conger moved to Villa 
Nova, Pa. He preached occasionally but was not equal to 
the labors of a parish. 

For twenty-five years he was President of the Convoca- 
tion of Chester, Pa. He was the author of "Religion for 
the Time" and of many published sermons. 

A memorial service was held in the Rosemont church on 
Sept. 19. Mr. Conger was a gentleman of culture, courteous 
and kindly, and in his domestic relations cheerful and af- 
fectionate and thoughtful of others to the last day of his 
life. He was devoted to Princeton, to which he was bound 
by so many ties, and was rarely absent from a gathering of 
his Class. H. L. H. 

The following Memorial was presented and read by the 
President of the Clerical Union for the Maintenance and 
Defence of Catholic Principles, at its meeting on September 
2.7, and was ordered to be spread on the Minutes, and a 
copy sent to the family of the deceased: 

"The Reverend Arthur B. Conger, member of the Cleri- 
cal Union since its inception, died on September the 5th after 
a long illness. Attractive in person, cultured in mind, well 
read in theology, he was well fitted to occupy the position 
he held for many years as Rector of the Church of the 
Good Shepherd, Rosemont, whose membership consisted of 
some of the oldest and best Philadelphia families. 

"Among these he had many and devoted friends who 

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stood by him nobly in the troubles which came when to 
stand still meant stagnation and death, and progress was 
absolutely imperative. The beautiful Church of the Good 
Shepherd and its admirable parish house will long remain 
monuments to his zeal for the glory of God, and a witness 
to the devoted and generous friendship of those to whom 
he ministered. 

"His death at Spring Lake, New Jersey ; his burial in his 
old home city of New York; the confused notice of funeral 
arrangements, prevented us from showing those last marks 
of esteem and affection to the mortal remains of a priest and 
a brother beloved." 

ALFRED C. COURSEN, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

"Billy" has been farming on the Eastern Shore of Mary- 
land for several years. Last year he sold his farm and 
came north to be with his son at Westfield, N. J., who was 
soon sent to Cleveland, and Billy went on to Huntington, 
L. I., where he lived before moving to Maryland. His 
daughter Gladys died October 7, 1918. His son enlisted 
early in the war, was in camp and was appointed Second 
Lieutenant. He adds : "I do not expect to be at the Re- 
union, but my blessing be with you all always." 

HON. BRYANT OWSLEY COWAN, A.B. 

From various letters that have come the following facts 
regarding our classmate are obtained. "In 191 1 a stroke 
of paralysis knocked me out of a good job and business and 
since then I have had to loaf." He took his family to 
California and that has been his home, where he has lived 
comfortably during these years. His daughter was mar- 
ried May 24, 191 6, to Ivan S. Rankin, of Oakland, Cal. In 
1919 Mr. and Mrs. Cowan spent six months in Berkeley, 

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Cal., and early in 1920, accompanied by their daughter, they 
went to the Hawaiian Islands for a two months' visit. He 
writes: "I think the island Oahu the most beautiful place 
I ever saw. For flowers it has Southern California dis- 
counted and its mountains are charming and the colors on 
its coral beaches are marvelous. Some of its tropical fruits 
are extra fine." That description will surely put Bryant 
on the defensive when brought to the attention of thorough- 
ly acclimated Southern Californians. 

Returning from Honolulu, Mr. and Mrs. Cowan spent 
some time in Montana and Idaho. On June 10, 192 1, he 
writes : "I have not been in Princeton since graduation and 
so have been denied the pleasure of Class Reunions. With 
some things distance may lend enchantment, but surely not 
with the meetings of '76. That the 45th may revive pleas- 
ant memories of college days, strengthen the friendships 
then established and stimulate a healthy optimism for the 
future is the earnest wish of yours truly. Since the last 
report I have done nothing worth mentioning except that 
I prepared a history of prize winning Shorthorn Cattle in 
the United States during the preceding twenty years. The 
history was published in Chicago in January, 1920, by the 
American Shorthorn Breeders' Association." 

"Dear General: 

"Two days after I sent you a brief report for our 45th 
year Record I went to church to hear a sermon by a re- 
turned foreign missionary. You can imagine my surprise 
and joy when I recognized the preacher as A. A. Fulton 
of '76, whom I had not seen since graduation. I have seen 
but eight members of our Class since June, 1876. Dr. Ful- 
ton and I have had a delightful short visit and will soon 
meet again to revive memories of pleasant college days. 

"Yours truly, 

"B. A. Cowan." 

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SAMUEL CRAIG COWART, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

Vice-President of the New Jersey Society of the Sons of 
the American Revolution ; Historian of the Monmouth Chap- 
ter, S. A. R. ; Delegate of the State of New Jersey to the 
Flag Celebration at Baltimore, Md., in 1914; Author of 
"Starry Banner of the Free," a poem read at the Unveiling 
of the Portrait of Francis Scott Key, in the Municipal 
Building, Baltimore, Md., 1914; Orator at Old Tennent 
Church, at the meeting of Washington Pilgrimage in 1914; 
Social Secretary of Y. M. C. A., at U. S. Naval Training 
Camp at Pelham Bay Park, New York, from Sept. 25 to 
Nov. 25, 1918, until after the armistice was signed. 

"Still practicing law at the same office on Court House 
Square, Freehold, where I started forty-one years ago. 

"I tried to enlist, first in the Navy, and had a letter from 
Pres't Woodrow Wilson in reply to a letter to him, directing 
me to go to Battery Park, N. Y., to enlist, but the enlisting 
officer, notwithstanding this credential, refused to enlist me 
because I was over 45 years of age. He recommended me 
to apply to the Military enlisting station, which I did the 
same day, and that officer politely informed me, they were 
in the same 'boat' as the Navy, that 45 was their age limit. 
Major Washington Irving Lincoln Adams, in charge of the 
latter enlisting station, advised me to write the Adj't Gen- 
eral at Washington, D. C. I wrote to Pres't Wilson again 
and asked him to intercede with the Adjutant General for a 
special appointment. He did so and the Adjutant Gen- 
eral wrote me to come to Washington and pass an exami- 
nation. Thinking he meant for a Civil position I did not 
go, but entered the Y. M. C. A. and became Social Secre- 
tary at Pelham Bay Camp where I had 18,000 sailors under 
my care, some job. 

"S. C. C." 



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HON. CLARENCE CUNINGHAM, A.B., LL.B. 

"Waterloo, S. C, July 18, 1921. 
"Dear General: 

"You insist I shall have a history. I believe with the fel- 
low who said that individual or nation without a history 
is happy. Mine is a very obscure and quiet life. I live 
alone at my home 'Craigends,' my portion of the Rosemont 
Manor. As well as my health and inclination will permit 
I look after the affairs of my individual estate and after 
the affairs of some absent members of the family. Not 
being a sportsman I never go hunting or fishing, and my 
leisure hours are given to reading and to reflections upon 
the value of our present earthlife. 

In my family we were seven, I the last to appear on this 
plane. The other six sincerely welcomed my arrival. I 
welcomed their departure for I believe the next plane to 
be a higher and broader one. Caring in no way for ma- 
terial gain and feeling myself utterly impotent to help on 
the great Democratic Party and help consummate Woodrow 
Wilson's divine and exalted principles, I wonder why I 
am left to walk alone, for now I am the last of my day and 
generation. 

"Having no sons to take my place in the great World 
War, I did the most I could do by investing in government 
bonds to the fullest extent of my limited means. My 
nephew, Charles H. Banks, and his younger brother, Hugh 
Banks Cuningham, both offered their country their ser- 
vices, but were both refused because of age. Charles was 
at the time ill with a slow consumption and Hugh was 
toiling for wife and children. 

"I have many and flattering invitations to visit my many 
cultured, well-to-do and genial friends, but am kept closely 
here watching our interest in the cotton culture and market, 
and keeping up the courage and morale of the place. 

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"A decided episode in my life happened in the summer of 
191 7 when 'Jeff' rescued me from most questionable lodg- 
ings in Washington, D. C, and took me to his charmingly 
appointed home and entertained me most sumptuously and 
agreeably and honored me with the acquaintance of Mrs. 
Davis, whom I found to be a woman of more than ordi- 
nary attainments, close observation, good judgment and 
with a purity and kindness of heart that place her in the 
front rank of womanhood. On my return from Washing- 
ton, I stopped over a night in Richmond, Va., and met Col- 
lins Denny and his family. It did not take me long to dis- 
cover that Collins was really a personage in his community, 
and he and his family made every moment of my stay in 
Richmond agreeable, satisfactory, and unforgetable. 

"In the autumn and early winter of 1918 I was confined 
for ten weeks in the Steedly Hospital at Spartanburg, S. C, 
where I had been hurried to be operated on for appendicitis. 
The appendix had sloughed off and my chances but slight 
for my continuance on this plane. However the man who 
did the operation and who watched over me night and day 
was Doctor B. B. Steedly, one of the most skilled and emi- 
nent surgeons of our era. Fate cast me in one of the best 
equipped sanatoriums in America and to the watchful, 
cheerful, and best trained corps of nurses to be found any- 
where. The people of the hospital said my recovery was 
a marvel. My only desire for getting on my feet again 
was that at that time I had here on earth two aged sisters 
who I thought ought to precede me to the advanced life. 

"Last August I took with some neighbors an automobile 
run to the Mammoth Cave and last May I enjoyed a Musi- 
cal Festival held at Spartanburg, on which occasion I heard 
a chorus of five hundred children sing in a manner that 



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would have done honor to Germany, where thoroughly- 
trained choruses are found. 

"Yours very sincerely, 

"Clarence Cuningham." 

HON. HENRY E. DAVIS, A.B., A.M., LL.B., LL.M., 
LL.D. 

"Washington, D. C, August 6, 192 1. 
"My dear General: 

"I hardly know just what sort of letter to write you in 
response to your request for 'something for the Record.' 
Since my last communication for that purpose five years 
ago my life has run along in almost humdrum fashion. I 
have been exceedingly busy, quite exclusively in the line of 
my profession, and having long since expiated by efflux of 
time 'the atrocious crime of being a young man/ I was 
denied the privilege of being of any service during the late 
war worthy of mention, my sole activity in that connec- 
tion having been as a member of one of the many advisory 
boards having to do with assisting in making up answers to 
questionnaires and minor work of that kind ; and outside of 
this and my professional work I recall nothing in my life 
that it would interest anyone to hear. I have been blessed 
with perfect health and spirits, and am still high up on the 
roll of optimists and the roster of the 'Don't Worry Club' ; 
in fact, I have been keeping the even tenor of my way, and 
that about sums up my case. 

"I have written a lot of odds and ends, professional, po- 
litical and anecdotal, some of which you may have seen in 
the columns of the New York Sun, notably my colloquy 
with the Editor over Magna Charta, my two articles on 
which appeared in double columns on the editorial page 
and attracted no little attention, quite uniformly flattering. 
My principal literary work, however, has been in the brief 

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line, in which I have consumed quantities of paper and 
printer's ink, sometimes effectively and at other times 
otherwise. 

"During the last Presidential campaign I supported Hard- 
ing and Coolidge, concentrating the thunders of my oratory 
on the stump upon the Peace Treaty and the League of 
Nations, and I rejoice in the result of the election quite as 
much as though I were a Simon-pure Republican, instead 
of, as I have been called, a Democratic traitor. My skin, 
however, is too thick to be sensitive to such compliments. 

" 'Looking backward' over the five years, our recent Re- 
union stands out as quite the most agreeable event that I 
can recall. As dear Slim says, 'it sure was a great suc- 
cess,' and God grant that we may all be at the next one. I 
have just had a delightful letter from Slim, filled with his 
characteristic self, and he certainly is the highest possible 
example of brightness and Christian submission under his 
deplorable affliction. 

"Yours in the bonds of '76, 

"Jeff." 

BISHOP COLLINS DENNY, A.B., A.M., LL.B., D.D., 
LL.D. 

Collins is a Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
South. Since the last Record he has been "engaged in 
routine work — visiting and supervising the Church, preach- 
ing often several times a week. Revised the law book of 
the Church — The Manual of Discipline. 

"Grandchildren born since last report: Roscoe Marvin 
White, Jr., January 2, 1918, and John Wesley Dixon, Jr., 
2nd, August. 

"My son, Collins Denny, Jr., volunteered in July 1918, 
trained at Plattsburg, N. Y., commissioned 2nd Lieut, of 
Infantry, Sept. 16, 1918. Ordered to S. A. T. C. Unit, At- 

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lanta Southern Dental College, Atlanta, Georgia. Honor- 
ably discharged S. O. 330 pav 17 Hdqrs. Southeastern De- 
partment, Dec. 26, 1918. I was appointed by Governor 
Henry C. Stuart a member of the Virginia State Council 
of Defense and served in that office. Governor Westmore- 
land Davis appointed me a member of the Virginia War 
History Commission and I served on that commission." 

Collins, Jr., was a 'j6 Prize Debater February 22, 19 19, 
a J.O. June, 1920, and Class Orator at his graduation in 
192 1. "Colonel" and Mrs. Denny, with two daughters, 
were in Princeton during Commencement week and fre- 
quently graced the Headquarters with their presence. The 
"Colonel" led the Sunday evening service at Headquarters. 

"Richmond, Va., July 6, 192 1. 
"My dear General : 

"Our Reunion was to me one of the most pleasant gather- 
ings I ever had the privilege to attend. Without exception 
the boys seemed to me to act, not only wholly naturally, but 
with deep affection towards each other. Certainly I could 
not have received anywhere on earth a warmer and more 
uplifting greeting than was given me, and I shall remember 
with unclouded delight the association I had with you dear 
fellows. 

"I have been wondering whether it might not be possible 
to put into our next Record the spirit that was manifest at 
our reunion. I am well aware that this is an exceedingly 
difficult undertaking, but if we could have a Record in 
which the boys would throw open the doors and windows of 
their nature and breathe the same genuine affection, it 
would be a blessing to our grandchildren after we have 
passed away. I wish you would try to secure something of 
this spirit in the next Record. I believe a call on the boys 
stressing the pleasure and profit of such a Record would 
bring a notable response. 

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"To you personally, I wish with all heartiness to send my 
thanks for your gracious treatment. Give my regards to 
Ed Bonner, and indeed to each of the boys. 

"My wife and children join me in kindest regards. 

"Affectionately, 

"Collins Denny." 

REV. ELLIOTT LAWRENCE DRESSER, A.B., A.M. 

"Healdsburg, Cal., June 15, 192 1. 
"My dear Harrison: 

"Yours of June 1 has just reached me here. I am sorry 
I cannot be with you at this Reunion. I shall be thinking 
of you and the dear classmates of '76 on the twentieth and 
of the fine times I have had with them at other Reunions, 
especially the last, when so many were there and we had 
that delightful prayermeeting led by 'Jim.' I remember all 
the faces of the fellows at that Reunion, and am saddened 
at the thought that some of them will never be present at 
another. 

"We came out to California last October and visited Mrs. 
Dresser's mother in San Diego, who had her 84th birthday 
on April 20th. Came here to Healdsburg, April 22d, where 
we are visiting my nephew Howard Chandler, pastor of 
the Healdsburg Presbyterian Church. We have toured the 
country a good deal between San Diego and San Francisco 
(in cars of our friends), and here in this garden spot of 
California and of the United States are seeing many of the 
attractions. Last week we visited the Napa Valley, Mt. 
St. Helena, the petrified forest and were just in time to see 
the geysers in action at Calistoga. Next week we are 
going up in the redwoods for a few days' camping. We 
were on Mt. Rubidoux Easter morning and visited Mount 
Tamalpais and the Muir Woods on our way here. 

"We have sold our home in Ithaca, and will probably 

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make our future home near New York City, as all the chil- 
dren are there. I was taken with a sort of shock while 
officiating at a funeral in Five Corners, and was not ex- 
pected to recover, but fortunately our youngest daughter, 
Marie, had just returned from France, — she was a Red 
Cross nurse and was near Pershing's headquarters for much 
of the year and a half she was abroad — so I got good nurs- 
ing. 

"I have no special news for the Record. My son Ivan 
still holds the world's record for the two miles, 9.22 T / 2 . He 
was at the Olympics, where he came in third, but neither 
he nor Brown broke his old record. He had been out of 
training for a year. 

"If I live I hope to be able to attend the next Reunion. 
Please present my greetings to the fellows. 

"Fraternally, 

"Dresser." 

FRANK DUNNING was born in New York City, the son 
of Benjamin Franklin and Ruth Seely Dunning. He came 
to Princeton from the Edgehill School, took the full four 
years' course and received the degree of A.B., and later that 
of A.M. After graduation he entered the Columbia Law 
School and completed his studies there in 1878 with the de- 
gree of LL.B. 

For a few years he devoted himself to the practice of his 
profession, but the country had a strong appeal for him 
and he spent more and more of his time on his farm at 
Warwick, Orange County, New York, where he was in- 
terested in breeding and raising stock. In New York he 
was a member of the University Club and that was his 
headquarters when in the city, which was not infrequent, as 
he had married sisters there, one of them the wife of M. 
Allen Starr. 

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The announcement of Frank's death on December n, 
1918, came as a great shock to his many friends for he al- 
ways seemed to enjoy the most robust health and his active, 
country life had kept him in splendid condition. For sev- 
eral months, however, he had known that all was not well 
with him and he had begun to prepare for the worst, sort- 
ing his papers, destroying some and preserving others, and 
putting his house in order. On December 6 he came to the 
city for an examination by a surgeon and was told that he 
should submit to an operation at once. It was performed 
on December 10, a very severe and difficult operation, and 
Frank never recovered from the shock, dying the next day. 

In college Frank was much interested in athletics, he was 
a splendid gymnast, one of the class football team, president 
and secretary of the University Baseball Association. A 
jolly, rollicking fellow, he was the life of any group he 
joined, a great addition to any party of friends. At base- 
ball and football games, class reunions and social gatherings 
he added much to the pleasure of the gathering and derived 
as much enjoyment as he gave. In all the circles to which 
he belonged, his loss will long be keenly felt. H. L. H. 

RICHARD ARTHUR EDWARDS, A.B., A.M. 

Edwards is president of the First National Bank of Peru, 
Indiana. In April he wrote : "I wish I could come to the 
Reunion, but am quite sure now that I will not be able to 
do so. I have so many things I am looking after personally 
that any considerable absence causes them to become mixed 
up. Hope you will have a fine time in June, as I have no 
doubt you always do. 

"With kind regards and remembrances to all the boys, 
I am, 

"Very truly yours, 

"R. A. Edwards." 

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Come to our 50th, Edwards, the Reunions grow better 
and better, and you will never want to miss another. If 
you begin planning for it early enough you will be able to 
leave business for a few days. 

"Peru, Ind., Sept. 12th, 1921. 
"Dear General : 

"I received your two letters asking for some material 
for the Record, and regret to say that nothing has occurred 
since the last report of a startling or particularly interesting 
nature. I have not been appointed Minister to Liberia or 
any first class power, but am still holding my job and look- 
ing after things in general as well as I can. 

"I have been rather expecting that some of the boys 
would come into the field and explain the fallacy in Ein- 
stein's Theory of Relativity, but thus far have been disap- 
pointed. 

"Hope to see you and some of the other boys one of these 
days. 

"With best regards, 

"Very Sincerely, 

"R. A. Edwards." 

CHARLES DUFIEF FOWLER, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

For his history since last reported Fowler says he has 
"nothing worth repeating." In the war "I did what little 
I was able to do. No titles. It will be impossible for me 
to attend Reunion on account of ill-health. Remember me 
kindly to all the boys. I would sure have been at Reunion 
if it had been possible." 



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REV. ALBERT ANDREW FULTON, A.B., D.D. 

"139 West Palm Ave., 

"Eagle Rock, Cal., May 20, 192 1. 
"My dear General: 

"Great is my disappointment that I shall not be able to 
be with you all at our 45th Reunion. I had hoped with 
eagerness to be there, but am compelled to forego, and must 
abide here. We are booked to sail on the 'Golden State/ 
leaving San Francisco August 6th. We came here last 
November, after a brief visit east, and are deeply in love 
with the sunshine, flowers and fruits of Southern California, 
and are daily reminded of the similarity of this climate with 
that of Canton and Southern China. 

"I had the pleasure recently of going with our family to 
the home of our departed classmate, Sam Wilson. Mrs. 
Wilson is living in Pasadena with her two daughters and 
her son. The son is in Occidental College, also one of the 
daughters, the other daughter occupying a high position as 
instructor in French in the Pasadena High School. They 
are a very attractive family and held in high esteem by all 
who have the privilege of knowing them. The son may 
enter Princeton next year. I also had the pleasure of meet- 
ing our classmates Dr. Beach and Tom Jones during my 
visit east. 

"Although only a few weeks from my 73d birthday, I 
am about as young in my feelings as I was twenty years 
ago and am planning for extensive work on our return to 
China. We who are getting towards the 'time limit' must 
associate with younger men as much as possible, and plan 
for work to the fullest measure of our strength. Glad I am 
that I have found my life's work in trying to help a great 
nation like China in her struggle towards the light. Today 
we confront a new China. China's friendship for the 

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United States is an asset of tremendous importance to our 
nation. China shows old time virility and will never be in 
subjection to any nation or combination of nations. The 
iooo students from China now in the United States will 
return to their land to become strong agents in strengthen- 
ing the Republic, and with increasing regard for the prin- 
ciples of free government by the people and for the people. 

"The recent large contributions made by the United States 
to sufferers from famine are deeply appreciated by the 
Chinese, and will not only contribute vastly to alleviate the 
suffering, but will incline the people of all classes to the 
principles of that religion which alone made such contribu- 
tions possible. Today China lies wide open to Gospel effort, 
and the evangelistic, educational and medical agencies are 
working great and far-reaching changes for the renovation 
and uplift of these hundreds of millions. In a recent ad- 
dress to the members of the City Club of Los Angeles I 
tried to set forth the nature of 'America's Opportunity in 
China/ and iooo copies were published, by request, by a so- 
ciety in the city for wide distribution. 

1 While I am disappointed at not being able to be with 
you all, I am not cast down. I am hoping to be at an- 
other Reunion. I shall be delighted to receive news of 
everything pertaining to our beloved classmates. 

"With affectionate regards to all, 

"Yours evermore, 

"A. A. Fulton." 

Fulton and Mrs. Fulton returned to this country on fur- 
lough in August, 1920, and in the fall following favored the 
Class Secretary with a call, shortly before they left for the 
West. Both were well and seemed to give promise of many 
years of usefulness. In May, 19 19, "Dutch" wrote that he 
had Lowrie with him for a week. The latter had had two 
calls to theological seminaries, one at Peking, the other at 

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Nanking, and Fulton advised his accepting one of them, as 
he has been working hard as Chairman of the China Coun- 
cil. At that time one of Fulton's sons was in France, 
studying at the University of Dijon pending demobilization. 
He wrote : "We are counting on our youngest son's going 
to Yale this fall. He is now at Occidental College and 
will enter the sophomore class at Yale. He goes there on 
account of several of his classmates at school at Shanghai 
who decided for Yale." 

In January, 1920, he wrote: "Our furlough will begin 
in July and Mrs. Fulton, our daughter Grace and I have 
passage engaged on one of the best steamers for the middle 
of July, and will reach San Francisco the middle of August. 

"We had thought of spending the coming winter in Los 
Angeles, where my brother and sister (Dr. Mary Fulton,) 
are. Our youngest son, Horace, will graduate from the 
junior class at Occidental College and we should much like 
to have him take his last year at Columbia. He is an all- 
round boy, will be twenty-one in March, strong in athletics 
and captain of the basketball team, I think, and first in ten- 
nis. Our daughter Grace wishes to take an extra year in 
the Kindergarten Department at Columbia, she is principal 
of the Kindergarten School here (Canton). We have a 
Union Normal School here, with teachers from three mis- 
sions, and are unable to accommodate all who wish to at- 
tend. Ralph, our third boy, lives in Garden City and goes 
to New York every day; he is married and has two chil- 
dren. Our oldest, Theodore, was a soldier in France, is 
not married and lives at the Beta Theta Pi Club in East 
40th Street. They are both college boys and are doing well 
financially. Our second son is married and is General 
Manager of a large disinfecting and chemical company out 
in Washington. 

The work here is very encouraging. Last Saturday night 

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247 men stood up in the Y. M. C. A. and came out strong 
for the claims of the old Gospel. 

"I suppose records will show that our beloved Class is 
weakening in numbers, but we that remain must show that 

'Age is opportunity no less 

Than youth, but in another dress.' 

We are immortal till our work is done. Big are our mer- 
cies and we must not forget them. 
"With affectionate regards, 

"Yours to the core, 

"A. A. Fulton, 

" 'Dutch.' " 

The address on "America's Opportunity in China" is 
packed full of interesting information regarding China, its 
resources, its valuable characteristics and its possibilities 
with the right guidance and the aid which America is so 
well qualified and able to give. The missionaries are en- 
gaged in a work whose value is incalculable, and the most 
able Chinese recognize its worth. We regret that there is 
not space to print the whole address. 

ALEXANDER B. GILLESPIE, A.B. 

Aleck has no changes to report since the last Record. 
There have been two marriages : Harriet to F. O. Gibbs, 
July 25, 1918, and Eugene to Nancy A. Smith, March 2, 
1920. Three grandchildren have been born during this 
period: Frederic E. Gibbs, December 7, 1919; Alexander 
A. Gillespie, February 23, 1918; Albert C. Gillespie, Janu- 
ary 28, 1 92 1. There have been no deaths during these five 
years. 

Calloway Gillespie was a private in the A. E. F. and re- 
turned safely. Eugene was a Sergeant, but did not get to 
France. 

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Aleck writes: "I was opposed to the Wilson crusade 
over seas and 7,000,000 voters have since taken the same 
view. I shall not be present at the Reunion. 

"Yours, &c, 

"A. B. Gillespie." 

REV. PROF. WILLIAM BRENTON GREENE, JR., 
A.B., D.D. 

"Princeton, N. J., May 9, 1921. 
"My dear 'General' : 

"I have little to report. I am still busy in my old posi- 
tion as 'Professor of Apologetics and Christian Ethics' in 
Princeton Theological Seminary. In addition to newspaper 
articles and book reviews and notes, I have published since 
the last Record three papers in the Princeton Theological 
Review; namely, 'The Christian Doctrine of War,' 'The 
Crises of Christianity and their Significance,' and 'The 
Crisis in Ethics.' I wish with all my heart that I could see 
all the men again. I delight to read of their successes, but 
it would be far better to hear of them from the men them- 
selves. I do not, however, now see any prospect of my 
having my wish. Engagements that I could not prevent 
and that I cannot control stand in the way. With warmest 
wishes and many thanks, I am, 

"Cordially yours, 

"W. Brenton Greene, Jr." 

"Sunny Lawn, Newport, R. I., 

"June 17, 192 1. 
"To the Class of 1876, Princeton University: 

"Dear Classmates, Unable to be with you, I desire to 
express my disappointment, to send the heartiest greeting to 
everyone of you, and to wish for you all a very happy 

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reunion. I am still with you in spirit as I wish I could be 
also in body. 

"Sincerely and cordially yours in the bonds of '76, 

"W. Brenton Green, Jr. 

REV. ROBERT WILSON HAMILTON, B.A., M.A. 

"The Fort Manse, 

"Lisburn, Ireland, July 28, 1921. 
"My dear Harrison: 

"I am still in full harness and have much cause for grati- 
tude as to prosperity and blessing. 

"We had a great sorrow three months ago in the death 
of my oldest son's wife, a fine, wise, capable girl whom 
we all greatly loved. She has left three little boys ; the 
youngest four months old, is here with us, the two older 
boys — seven and four — are with their father in Manchester. 

"I have nothing very special as to history since last re- 
port. Both sons are married. The older, E. S. Burt Ham- 
ilton has three sons: Robert Stewart Burt, born in July, 
1914; GeofTry Cadzow, January, 1917; Peter Donaldson, 
March 13, 1921. Their mother died April 2, 1921. 

"Dr. E. S. Burt Hamilton, being in the Special Reserve, 
was ordered out at the outbreak of war, and served all 
through. He was a prisoner of war in Germany for five 
months. He was Captain in the R. A. M. C. and gained 
the Military Cross. Since the armistice he gained the 
F. R. C. S. E. (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, 
Edinburgh). He is now Medical Inspector of Factories in 
Manchester, and a Specialist in ear and throat troubles. 

"Robin Victor Hamilton is a partner in the firm of 
George L. McClaine & Co., Solicitors, Belfast. He is mar- 
ried to Marie Hanna, and lives near us in Lisburn. 



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"If coming this way any time, come and stay with us 
for a chat over old times. 
"Ever, my dear General, 

"Sincerely yours, 

"R. W. Hamilton." 

HENRY LEWIS HARRISON, A.B., A.M. 

The Secretary desires to make especial mention of his 
grateful recognition of the support the Class has always 
extended to him and the forbearance it has shown to his 
shortcomings. To serve such a considerate and apprecia- 
tive body of men has ever been one of his chief pleasures. 
The Reunion recently held gave evidence of the growing 
community of feeling and ripening affection that exists 
among our members, and, with many of the letters pre- 
sented in this book, manifested the spiritual advance that 
has come with the passing years. There has been no hap- 
pier Reunion than this, though it was tempered by the re- 
membrance of many classmates who were wont to come and 
will not again meet with us in Princeton. 

The ready and hearty response to the appeals of the 
Committee in behalf of the Reunion must not be passed over 
in silence, nor the personal sacrifice made by some to en- 
able them to attend, nor the many spontaneous expressions 
that this was our best Reunion, — a fact made possible by 
the planning and labor of an indefatigable President dur- 
ing the whole year, and more, that preceded it. To him, far 
more than to the Secretary, belong the honor of its success 
and the gratitude of the Class. 'y6 and Princeton have 
been in all his thoughts, or in most of them, and to his 
prevision and supervision were due most of the comforts 
and pleasure of the Reunion. 

History since last report: In June, 1918, came the sud- 
den death of Dr. Arthur H. Cutler, the founder in 1873 of 

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the Cutler School and its Headmaster for forty-five years. 
The first pupil he prepared for college was Theodore Roose- 
velt. With him I had been associated in secondary educa- 
tion since 1877, and after his death I succeeded him as 
Headmaster. Recently the school has moved to its present 
home on Madison Avenue, this accounting for my change of 
address. While Mrs. Harrison and I were in Massachus- 
etts attending the funeral of Dr. Cutler my mother went to 
join the loved ones who had preceded her to the other land. 
She had attained the ripe age of ninety-three and had the 
enjoyment of most of her faculties until the end. 

During the great war there was little I could do, the 
school work filling my time so completely, but Mrs. Har- 
rison took part in Red Cross and other 'drives' and was a 
greatly valued helper in canteens and service clubs. 

WILLIAM J. HENDERSON, A.B., A.M. 

Hendy's report is of great brevity. "My sixteenth book, 
'Early History of Singing/ was published on March 9, 
1 92 1, by Longmans, Green and Company. I believe there 
is nothing else to report, except that in the war I served as 
instructor in navigation in the Naval Militia of New York 
without rank or pay." 

The press notices of Hendy's latest book are unusually 
laudatory. As all know, he is the musical critic of the New 
York Herald, formerly The Sun. At the Class Dinner 
Hendy made one of his greatest "tears." 

BAYARD HENRY, A.B., LL.B. 

"February 16, 192 1. 
"My dear Harrison: 

"In reply to your inquiry I would say my home address 
is the same as before; office address, 2231 Land Title Build- 
ing: 

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"Service in War: My two sons and son-in-law were in 
service : 

"Howard H. Henry, Princeton, 1904. Captain in Re- 
serve Corps, Remount Service. In command at Remount 
Station, Palo Alto, California. Died in service on Staff of 
General John Biddle, in London, February 12, 1919. 

"Snowden Henry, Princeton, 1920. Enlisted in the Naval 
Reserve, 191 7. Transferred to the Army as private in the 
Engineering Corps at Camp Grant, August 24, 191 7, com- 
missioned Second Lieutenant August 8, 19 19, served in 
France with the 35th Engineers, — Aide-de-Camp to Gen- 
eral Westervelt. 

"Isaac W. Roberts, Princeton, 1903. Entered the Army 
as private in the Air Service, October, 19 17. Commissioned 
Second Lieutenant January 2, 191 8. First Lieutenant, Jan- 
uary 28, 19 1 8, Captain, October 8, 191 8. Served at Offi- 
cers' Training Camp, Kelly Field, Texas, and at Washing- 
ton. 

"Personally, I served as Legal Advisor to Local Draft 
Board No. 17. 

"Sincerely yours, 

"Bayard Henry." 

Snowden Henry was married October 5, 1920, to Miss 
Elsbeth Merck, of West Orange, N. J. 

As a memorial to Howard Henry his classmates and 
friends have raised a fund for a dormitory at Princeton, 
and it will be erected in the near future next to the Pyne 
Dormitory, whose corner-stone was laid on June 19, 1921. 

Bayard is still working as hard as ever for Princeton as 
alumnus and as Trustee. His after-dinner speeches about 
the University are full of interesting information and far- 
seeing plans for its material, intellectual and spiritual 
growth. 

The Princeton Alumni Weekly of June 22, 1921, reports: 

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The Trustees at their commencement meeting appointed two 
of their members, Bayard Henry '76 and Cyrus H. Mc- 
Cormick '79, to go as Princeton's official delegates to the 
laying of the cornerstone of the new Library of the Uni- 
versity of Louvain in Belgium, which will take place dur- 
ing this summer. 

"Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Henry of Philadelphia, now in 
Belgium, were recently invited to dine at the Palace of 
Laeken in Brussels by the King and Queen of the Belgians. 
Mrs. Henry took an active part in Belgian relief work dur- 
ing the war." — New York Times, Aug. 1, 192 1. 

JUDGE JAMES CALDWELL JENKINS, A.B., A.M., 
Princeton; LL.B., Columbia University. 

"During the last four years I have been engaged in the 
practice of law in New York, lecturing in the schools and 
other public places, and writing for the papers and law 
magazines. I took quite an active part in electing Hard- 
ing and Coolidge and the State officials of New York. 
Wrote a number of articles against Wilson's Treaty and 
League of Nations, believing that, independent of its vices 
and fatuity, it was absolutely repugnant to the U. S. Con- 
stitution and destructive of the Nation. These articles 
were published in some of the New York papers, The Pro- 
tectionist of Boston, and some of the American papers in 
the Philippine Islands. I made a number of speeches in 
New York City and Washington against this League, and 
in favor of republicanism and the election of the entire Re- 
publican ticket. I rejoice in the overthrow of Wilson and 
his policies, and trust we shall never again be visited with 
such a curse. 

"No marriage since last report. No grandchildren. 

"Our second daughter, Louise, died in New York City, 
November 11, 1917, at the age of 29. 

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"Our oldest son, James C, Jr., served with the Emer- 
gency Fleet Corporation in Philadelphia a long while. 

"The third son, Theodore, D., served with the Army in 
France fourteen months, and was discharged a Lieutenant. 

"I personally made many patriotic addresses during the 
war, without pay of course, and two daughters, Eunice and 
Susan, worked with the Red Cross. 

"I should be pleased if my classmates who are lawyers 
would read my criticism of the decision in the celebrated 
Dartmouth College case, published in the September-Octo- 
ber number of the American Lam Review of 191 7, and also 
discussion of Wilson's League in the Oct., 1920, issue of 
the Protectionist. In the February issue, 1 921, there is an 
article about the Philippines." 

MAJOR RICHARD W. JOHNSON, A.B., A.M., M.D., 

U. S. Army, Retired. 

"Los Angeles, California, 

"July 4, 1921. 
"My dear General: 

"I am behind as usual with my' report, but hope it will 
reach you in ample time. I have nothing further to report 
since my last contribution to the class history. I have re- 
ceived neither titles nor degrees, and have had no honors 
thrust upon me. 

"I am still in Los Angeles, but expect to move to Palo 
Alto, Calif., some time this summer or fall, if suitable ar- 
rangements can be made, as I want to enter my son at 
Stanford University. I, of course, would naturally prefer 
to have him matriculate at Princeton, but as he is just past 
fifteen, we consider him a little too young to send so far 
from home. He graduated last month from the High 
School here with a scholarship medal, standing second in 
his class, and delivered the Salutatory address, so we natur- 

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ally are somewhat proud of him, and want to give him the 
advantages of a good college education. 

"I was too old to go abroad, so was not called upon for 
any active service in the world war, not even as a $1.00 a 
year man. 

"Sorry I could not be present at the Class Reunion, but 
the distance was too great, and the rascally railroads have 
put the cost of transportation at so high a figure, that I 
found I could not very well separate myself from the 
amount required to make the trip, so was obliged to forego 
the pleasure of being with you. 

"Very sincerely yours, 

"R. W. Johnson." 

In a former letter Dick writes : "If there is one thing 
above another that I look back upon with the utmost plea- 
sure, it is the association and friendships I formed with 
the men of '76, and anything relating to them since we 
graduated has been of the greatest interest to me." 

ROBERT WILKINSON JOHNSON, A.B., A.M., M.D. 

" 'Rockland,' Brooklandville, Md., 

"July 15, 1921. 
"Dear General: 

"Your last appeal touched me near the fountain pen, so 
you must be responsible. I have had what the doctors call 
a change of life — having retired from surgery and taken 
up farming in my native land. The house I live in I was 
born in in '54 and it has been built some hundred years. 
The land has been in the family for two hundred, and 
lately the ninth generation played under the old trees. It is 
really a beautiful place, about 800 to 1000 acres, eight miles 
from Baltimore in the far-famed Green Spring Valley. My 
crops are wheat, corn, hay, potatoes, oats, and milk, but- 
ter, etc., for home consumption. 

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"My family remain the same except an occasional new 
grandchild. My last is the son of my son Robert W., Jr., 
and is Robert W., III. He is a beautiful auburn-haired 
boy, and like his father and two grandfathers heading for 
Princeton. All my children are married but Wm. Fell '05. 
He seems to think it his duty to look after the senile (gradu- 
ally getting so) rather than the rising generation. 

"I really cannot imagine a more peaceful and delightful 
sunset, surrounded as I am by wife, children and grand- 
children in our old family home. I get up at 6 a. m., start 
the men harvesting just now, take a nap from twelve to 
one, lunch, spend the afternoon on the farm or riding in 
auto with the family. So far I can make ends meet, but 
farming is a business venture I cannot recommend. My 
hands — white men descended from grandparents' time, born 
on the place, give a more feudal look to labor than is usual. 
They are reliable and our connection has an element of 
friendship in it as well as business. 

"Personally I never felt better, and may say, or looked 
better — hair white and pink, beard and mustache white, 
color rubicund. I have twenty tenants on the place, whose 
houses I can enter any hour with a feeling that I am wel- 
come. 

"Now all this big I business is due to your pathetic postal, 
and I will not bore you or '76 men generally with any more. 
I shall be glad to welcome you or them here at my country 
home. 

"Ever yours, 

"R. W. Johnson." 

DAVID B. JONES, A.B., A.M., LL.B. No report. 

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THOMAS DAVIES JONES, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

''Chicago, July 19, 1921. 
"My dear Harrison: 

"In reply to your inquiry for material to be used in the 
192 1 Class Record, I would say — I have not changed my 
name, nor have I received any titles or degrees since my 
last report. My business address is 11 16 Marquette Build- 
ing, Chicago, and my home address 1435 Astor Street in 
the same city. 

"My history since my last report has been quite unevent- 
ful, with the exception of certain services in war time, re- 
ferred to below. I am still a bachelor, and therefore can- 
not report the marriage of any children since my last report, 
nor the birth of any grandchildren. Fortunately there has 
been no death in the family to record. 

"President Wilson appointed me a member of the War 
Trade Board in July, 1917, and I served on that Board from 
that time to January 1, 1918. I found the work more 
burdensome than I could carry, and was compelled to retire 
for health reasons. 

"Faithfully yours, 

"Thomas D. Jones." 

On September 18, 1919, President Wilson appointed 
"Tom" as one of the representatives of "the public" on 
the National Labor Conference that was called to meet in 
Washington on October 6, 1919. 

WILLIAM TALMAGE KAUFMAN, A.B. 

"July 1, 1921. 
"My dear General: 

"My life, since the 1916 reunion, has been quiet and free 
from upheaval or excitement. I have resigned from all 
directorates and committees with which I have been con- 

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nected, other than those incident to my business life, my 
object being to cut down my responsibilities. Recently I 
was elected to the Session of the Crescent Avenue Presby- 
terian Church of Plainfield, N. J., one of the largest 
churches in the State. I had twice declined the honor, but 
I couldn't withstand the pressure; and so I agreed to un- 
dertake this new work. 

While I am not a believer in a man's giving up his busi- 
ness or profession entirely, I think that when the five-and- 
sixty years' mark has been passed he should go a little more 
slowly than in his younger years, if he can. We 'old 
guards' can not stand what we could twenty-five years ago, 
and we may as well acknowledge it by gradually giving 
place to younger men. 

"Since my last report, one grandchild has come to us — 
Charles James Cole, born October 16, 1917. This makes 
'three of a kind/ 

"My only activity in war- work was a rather ambitious 
undertaking in the way of truck-gardening by the Boy 
Scouts. This I attempted to engineer; and while large 
quantities of vegetables were grown on the farm, the cost 
exceeded the proceeds by over $4000. This was a case of 
'cost plus' money, worry and anxiety. 

"I was deeply impressed at the Reunion by the spirit- 
uality of those present. I think it unusual for a lot of 
men, forty-five years after being graduated, to evidence the 
power of Jesus Christ in men's hearts to such a degree as 
seems to characterize our Class, if those who did not meet 
with us are 'of the same mind,' as I believe they are. 

"Many of us have lost classmates and others dear to us, 
but we rejoice in their helpful examples and in their hav- 
ing left the world better than they found it. 'Who am I, O 
Lord Jehovah, and what is my house, that Thou hast 
brought me thus far?' 

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"I cannot close this rambling and, I fear, uninteresting 
letter, without expressing to you the deep sense of obliga- 
tion felt by us all for your long and unselfish faithfulness 
and efficiency as the Deus ex Machina of the Class. 

"Yours very sincerely, 

"W. T. Kaufman." 

REV. ROBERT TODD LISTON, A.B. 

"Jacksonville, Alabama, 

"August 19, 192 1. 
"Dear General: 

"About three years ago I moved to this, my old home. I 
have not been the pastor here during that time, but have 
been supplying several churches in this Presbytery, at dif- 
ferent times. 

"My son Robert was in the S. A. T. C. of Davidson Col- 
lege, but the close of the war shut him out from service 
over-seas ; and I was ready to see him go, yet was glad that 
a boy so young as he did not go through all the exposure 
to every sort of vice he surely would have met. My two 
younger daughters are at home, one to graduate in High 
School next year, the other still in Grammar School. 

"My oldest daughter, Margaret, spent last year in the 
school for trained nurses, in the Presbyterian Hospital, New 
York City. My son Robert, is doing some Home Mission 
work, intending this fall to enter Union Theological Semi- 
nary, Richmond, Va., to study for the ministry. 

"My daughter Sara returns to Spartanburg, S. C, to 
graduate there next year; she has taken but three years to 
complete the four years' course of study, the faculty by 
special vote allowing her to do so. Two or three other dis- 
tinctions she has also achieved there this past year. 

"I should have had a good time at Commencement surely, 
but it was hardly possible for me to get there this time. 

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My best wishes to all our fellows, hoping to meet with you 
before very long. 

"For you, General, may every happy and every blessed 
thing possible come to you, through all the days to come. 
"Very cordially and truly yours, 

"R. T. Liston." 

REV. JAMES WALTER LOWRIE, A.B., A.M., D.D. 

"Brick" is Chairman of the China Council of the Pres- 
byterian Church (North) and is living at 20 Museum Road, 
Shanghai. He inserts this "Note — There is an American 
Post Office in Shanghai and postage is the same as in the 
United States." Hence two cents will take a letter to him. 
His history since his last report he covers with this : "Trav- 
eling among our thirty-two mission stations in China." 

"Brick" is also Chairman of the Executive Committee 
of the Bible Union of China, an organization formed in the 
summer of 1920 by missionaries in China, and now num- 
bering over 1000 members. Its object is to affirm and de- 
fend the fundamentals of the Christian faith against the 
denial and unbelief of Modernism and Higher Criticism. 

EDWARD DEWIS LYON, A.B., A.M., Ph.D. 

University Club, New York City. At present at 253 
Shady Avenue, East Liberty, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

"Life has brought few changes to me during the five 
years since the publication of the Class Record of 1916. I 
am still teaching, still reside in Pittsburgh, Pa., still look- 
ing to the future for betterment. 'That man is right who 
stands closest to the future.' I believe with Victor Hugo, 
'The road to Damascus is essential to the march of progress. 
To fall into the truth and to rise a just man — a transfiguring 
fall that is sublime.' 

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" 'Not only what we are, 

But what we were and what we hope to be, 
Make up our life, — the far days each a star, 
The near days, nebulae.' 

"I have been reading over a few old letters and submit an 
excerpt that may amuse from one of Plumley's, dated March 
30, 1878: 'You know, I suppose that ... of '77 has 
bought out the Princeton Review. He and "Dad" have 
gotten into an awful mess with it and have figured in a 
rather disagreeable light in the "Evangelist." I fear . . . 
has behaved like an ass, and that D. A. D. has some germs 
of the sharper in him. Think of "Dad" indulging in sharp 
practice ! Alas, how are the portly fallen.' 

"Quoting Shakespeare, 'Nothing 'gainst Time's scythe 
can make defense save friendship.' In quiet mood one's 
mind reverts to the past and feels the nearness of old 
friends. Old joys revive again in living present and a 
charmful sense of good- will steals over one's spirit in re- 
calling those beloved comrades of the Princeton days of the 
Class of '76." 

RICHARD RIDGELY LYTLE, A.B., A.M., M.D. 

Dick writes: "Since last report there have been some 
changes in my family. I was married on June 28, 191 7, 
to Miss Ethel Benedict Cox, of New York City. My son 
Scott Harrison Lytle, Princeton '11, was killed in France 
on September 29, 1918, in the battle of the Hindenburg 
Line. He was a member of the 107th Regiment and 27th 
Division, which with the 30th Division was brigaded with 
the Fourth British Army, and they were used as 'shock 
troops' to break the line between Cambrai and St. Quentin. 
On September 29th they attacked this line on a front of 
twenty-four miles, with terrible losses from shell and ma- 

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chine gun fire, but they achieved their purpose. Scott is 
buried in the Bony Cemetery in France. 'Where the tree 
falls there let it lie,' where the hero died, let him rest in 
peace. 

"Richard R., Jr., is a Captain in the regular army, but 
expects to resign and finish his course at Oxford as a 
Rhodes Scholar. His marriage was noted in the last Rec- 
ord and he and Mrs. Lytle have two children, Scott Har- 
rison Lytle, born in New York City October 12, 19 18, and 
Jean Fine Lytle, born in San Francisco August 16, 1920. 

"There is no change in my work, I am still active, al- 
though old age is trailing at my heels, but I manage to 
keep old dog Tray at some distance. 

"We shall miss some of the dear faces that were at our 
last Reunion. I trust we shall have a glorious meeting, 

"Cordially yours, 

"Richard R. Lytle." 

We had the glorious Reunion and Dick, Mrs. Lytle, a 
daughter and a grandson were there to have a share in it. 

JOSEPH MCELROY MANN died suddenly of heart 
disease at his home in Bloomfield, N. J., on Monday, No- 
vember 17, 19 19. Saturday and Sunday he had been ill 
with a cold and had remained away from his office on Sat- 
urday but Monday morning he was feeling better and 
thought he might go to New York. However he decided 
it would be wise to take another day's rest, especially as 
he expected to introduce a lecturer that evening in a course 
which he had managed for years at his church. He made 
several arrangements over the telephone in regard to this 
lecture and went back to his bed, taking the morning paper 
with him. There he was found an hour or two later peace- 
fully sleeping the sleep that knows no waking in this world. 

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Funeral services were held on Wednesday in the first Pres- 
byterian Church, in which he was an Elder and Clerk of 
the Session. 

"Mac" was born in Kingsbridge, now part of New York 
City, July 13, 1856, the son of the Rev. Joseph R. Mann, 
D.D., and Ellen Thomson Mann. Prepared for college by 
Mr. John Schanck of Princeton, he entered as a freshman 
and took the usual academic course. He distinguished him- 
self particularly in athletic sports, rowing, baseball, foot- 
ball and the Caledonian games, fame coming to him espe- 
cially from his pitching on the college ball nine, for he was 
the first amateur to pitch a curve. As the Evening Sun 
said after his death: "He was a splendid character, a re- 
markable all-round athlete and a pioneer in baseball — one 
of the greatest pitchers in all baseball — the first man to 
pitch a no-hit game and no-run affair as well, May 29, 
1875, at New Haven, score 3 to o." As a track and field 
performer, in the first inter-collegiate championship games 
at Saratoga, in July, 1876, "Mac" won the shot put and 
baseball throwing and was second in the running high jump. 

After graduation "Mac" was with The New York World 
for several years, then with the Presbyterian Board of For- 
eign Missions in connection with one of its publications, and 
since November, 1886, with Charles Scribner's Sons in the 
magazine department and later in the Cashier's Department 
with "Jai" Brown '76. In this responsible position he was 
most successful, absolutely dependable, and thoroughly re- 
liable. As one has said, "He never did better work than 
during his last year; when he fell his hands were on the 
plough." He was at his desk only three or four days be- 
fore his death. 

"Mac" was married to Miss Fannie Benedict Carter, 
April 18, 1883, and two sons blessed their union, Peter 
Carter Mann, Princeton '05, and Joseph Francis Mann, 

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Princeton 'n. Mrs. Mann died September 18, 1917. The 
sons are married and there are three grandchildren. 

There has been no more loyal son of Princeton nor more 
devoted member of the Class of 'j6. Nothing but illness or 
press of business kept him from Class and College gather- 
ings. His unassuming manners, lack of self-consciousness, 
his courtesy and thoughtfulness for others won him hosts 
of friends. As a citizen and a Christian he was unfailing 
in the performance of his duty, and he will long be missed 
in all the spheres in which he was active. H. L. H. 

"Dec. 16, 1919. 
"My dear Harrison : 

"I have just read the obituary of Joseph Mann in the 
Princeton Weekly, written by you. I knew 'Mack' quite 
well. I met him often in the Gym. I was present at the 
Yale game when Mann pitched a 3 to o game. I was stand- 
ing behind the catcher watching the curve ball. It was 
the most exciting game of ball I ever attended. 

" 'Mack' was a mighty fine fellow and I regret more than 
I can express to learn of his death. One by one the mem- 
bers of '76 are crossing the invisible line. If we are as 
ready to go as I think 'Mack' was, there will be a happy 
reunion of old '76 on the other side. God grant that all 
of us may be ready to meet the coming of the King, which 
may be at any moment. 

"Sincerely yours, 

"W. McB. Smith." 

"My dear General: 

"You have asked me to write something for the Record 
about Mac. Every body in the class and college knew 
Mac Mann. In my opinion he was one of the best ball 
players I ever knew, I never saw him lose his head ; he was 
a boy with a most even disposition ; he played with his whole 

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heart and head, and always treated his opponent fairly. I 
suppose I was as close to Mac as any boy in the class, and 
a cleaner, fairer and broader-minded boy could not be 
found. 

"It may be of interest for me to relate how he came to 
control and pitch the curve. It was in the fall of 1874, 
when the Hartford Professional Team came to Princeton to 
play our team. Mr. Arthur Cummings was their pitcher 
and he told Mac that at times when he pitched the ball it 
curved in the air; that was enough for a college boy and 
he began to study and work it out during the winter of 1874 
and 1875. He said to me, 'Jimmie, if I hold it this way 
it will curve out and the reverse curve should be made by 
putting the opposite twist on,' and he did so and gave me 
the in-shoot. In my opinion Mac Mann was the first 
pitcher to control the ball so as to make it curve, and it 
enabled us to beat Yale in the spring of 1875 by the first no- 
hit, no-run game, 3 to o. I saw very little of Mac after we 
left college but the same traits of character in the boy were 
developed in the man. 

"Very sincerely, 

"J. M. Woods." 

REV. PAGE MILBURN, A.B., A.M., Ped.D. 

"Washington, D. C, Feb. 3, 1921. 
"Dear General: 

"I am in the Trade Mark Division of the United States 
Patent Office; while serving as pastor of the Woodside 
Church I took the Civil Service Examination, and after 
serving a few months in the Civil Service Commission, I 
was assigned Jan. 11, 1918, to the Patent Office as an as- 
sistant examiner of trade marks. I retired from the active 
ministry in April, 1918. 

"There is very little else to say about myself or my family. 

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I am leading a busy life, working for Uncle Sam. I could 
not bear the thought of being idle upon retirement from the 
active ministry, so I took advantage of the age limit be- 
ing removed during the war, and passed with 'high honors' 
the civil service examination. I am enjoying my work. It 
gives me a regular schedule, which is important at my time 
of life. I get tired, but I sleep well, and go at it again next 
day. 

"The great riches I have, the greatest, a devoted wife, 
and six of the best children God ever gave a man, — four 
sons and two daughters. 

"Last fall my children, especially my two older boys, sent 
their mother and father off on a trip. We were gone seven 
weeks, taking in St. Louis, Kansas City, Denver, Garden of 
the Gods, Salt Lake, Yellowstone Park, Los Angeles, San 
Diego, Tia Juana, Mexico (!), San Francisco, Portland, Se- 
attle, Victoria, Vancouver, Canadian Rockies, to Minneapo- 
lis, Chicago, Milwaukee, — to Washington, D. C. Some trip ! 
and some gift ! 

"My health is as good as I can expect for a man of my 
age. I rarely take a day of sick leave, only three days last 
year when I stayed home with a bad cold. I work as hard 
and get off as much work as anybody in the Division, and I 
am happy. 

"I am still studying and learning. My association in the 
office with my fellow workmen is delightful, and I have not 
a thing to complain of. 

"Page Milburn, Jr., was in the Ordnance Department 
for two years, in the A. E. F., stationed at the Air Service 
Headquarters, Paris, France. He was an Ordnance Ser- 
geant. 

"Two grandchildren have been born: Ethel Mae, to 
William R. and Ethel M. Milburn, at Milwaukee on Aug- 



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ust 22, 1920, and Martha Page Milburn to Joseph W. and 
Jean P. Milburn, February 20, 192 1. 

"Cordially yours, 

"Page Milburn." 

JOHN GEORGE MILLER was born in Portsmouth, 
Ohio, February 4, 1853. He prepared for college at Prince- 
ton in 1 871 under O'Brien and "Johnny" Laird and was one 
of the "original Freshmen." After graduation he returned 
to Portsmouth, and went into business as a manufacturer 
of clothing. In 1884 his firm moved to Chicago, where the 
business was largely extended and prospered. 

"Jack" was married October 17, 1878 to Miss Emma S. 
Drouillard, and to them were born three children, a son, 
George Scudder Miller, and two daughters. Mrs. Miller 
died in 1888. Six years later "Jack" was married to Miss 
Lena S. Harris, of Waco, Texas. They continued to reside 
in Chicago for the next twenty years, when, the business de- 
clining, they moved to Dallas, Texas, and "Jack" went into 
business there. Early in 191 8 he became ill with typhoid 
pneumonia; after several weeks he seemed to be improving, 
but a relapse coming he died on April 13, and was buried on 
the 16th, in Waco, Texas. Mrs. Miller, the three children, 
all of whom are married, and several grandchildren survive 
him. 

Business was so engrossing, calling "Jack" to various 
parts of the country, that he seldom was able to be in 
Princeton. He attended the Reunion of 1906 and enjoyed 
it so keenly that he promised to be at the next, but just when 
he had decided to come east in 191 1 a telegram called him 
to the Pacific Coast. There he saw Dick Johnson and Harry 
Brown. In college "Jack" made many friends owing to a 
genial disposition and uniform courtesy, but his absorption 
in his business and infrequent meetings with them pre- 
vented a maintenance of their early intimacy. H. L. H. 

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HON. HIKOICHI ORITA, A.B., A.M. 

"Kojinguchi, Kawaramachi, Kyoto, 

" March 4, 1920. 
"Henry L. Harrison, Esq., 

"Princeton Uni. 
"Dear Sir: 

"With feelings of the most heartfelt grief, I have to an- 
nounce to you that my dear father is no more. He died 
of last world spread influenza on 25th January of this year. 
"I am fully convinced of the kind interest you take in 
this sad event, for I know well your kind attitude for my 
poor father since his graduation of Princeton University, 
and I know, too, how delightfully he used to receive your 
kindness. 

"Believe me, dear sir, 

"Yours sincerely, 

"Aritsune Orita." 

This letter from Orita's oldest son was received April 23, 
1920, and two letters sent to him since then asking further 
information regarding our classmate, have had no answer. 

Orita was born in Kagoshima, Japan, January 4, 1849 
(in The Nassau Herald, 1876, it is given as 1852), and 
was prepared for Princeton by Rev. Dr. Edward T. Cor- 
win at Millstone, N. J., whose son, the Rev. Charles E. 
Corwin, of Rocky Hill, N. J., has very kindly contributed 
the following: 

"My earliest recollections are of the large Millstone par- 
sonage with spacious grounds, and Japanese students in the 
family. Father began to take Japanese students to pre- 
pare for college, I believe, in 1869. For about ten years he 
had from one to three in the family, I think almost, if not 
all the time. Most of them, perhaps all, were supported by 
the Japanese Government and were picked men. The Gov- 

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ernment was following that policy if I am rightly informed. 
I think they received $1000 a year in gold from the Japanese 
Government. How my father came to take them I do not 
know exactly. But he was at the time in his early prime, 
a man of great energy and versatility, wonderfully well in- 
formed in the realm of books and in the affairs of the 
world. In fact he was always intensely interested in the 
progress of mankind. Therefore in some way which I do 
not know he got in touch with the Japanese Government 
and these young men were sent to him. I understand that 
he would have gone to Japan at that time in the employ of 
the Government if he had not had his mother to care for. 

"I have heard the story that a delegation of Japanese 
officials came from Washington to see my father, something 
about one of the students, named Conda. When my mother, 
who was then only in her late twenties, entered the room, 
they all stood up and then bowed with their foreheads to 
the floor to her no small amusement. 

"I faintly remember Orita. I know that my father 
thought very well of him. ... I have heard the 
story that father took Orita to Princeton with him to a 
commencement, probably in 1872, if he graduated in 1876. 
President Grant was present and Orita was much amazed 
that he was dressed in a simple citizen's suit and not in 
costly robes, etc. Orita I believe was supposed to have 
been soundly converted while in college. About the only 
thing I remember about him personally was his last visit to 
our house after his graduation, shortly before he sailed for 
Japan. As the moment approached when he must give his 
final farewell he proposed that they all sing, 'Blest be the 
tie that binds.' " 

Returning to Japan after his services in connection with 
the Japanese exhibit at the Centennial Exposition at Phila- 
delphia, Orita entered upon his life work as an educator, 

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becoming in 1880 Director of the Third-Higher-Middle 
School in Kyoto, which was intermitted by a year and a 
half as Chief of the Bureau of School Affairs in the Edu- 
cational Department. He continued with the Third Col- 
lege, a preparatory institution to the National University, 
until 1910, when it had a thousand students, and on his 
resignation was made Honorary Professor. The Emperor 
then appointed him, December 27, 1910, a life member of 
the House of Peers. His legislative duties and member- 
ship in the Imperial Household Department required his 
presence in Tokio three months of the year, during which 
he was required to see the Emperor once a week. In ad- 
dition many other positions and offices in connection with 
political or charitable organizations were conferred, upon 
him. 

In 1878 he was married to Sotoko Ononye, and to them 
were born eight children, six sons and two daughters. In 
reporting their names and dates of birth Orita added : "Is 
there anyone among our classmates to contess with me in 
getting so many offsprings?" In regard to his own occu- 
pation he wrote : "The most important work to promote the 
welfare and standing of our country is to produce useful 
men in every direction. Toward such an aim I believe I 
am doing good." 

All will recall in affectionate remembrance our Japanese 
classmate, modest, unassuming, courteous, studious, desir- 
ing the best, with open mind seeking the truth and rejoicing 
when he had found it. The opportunity to visit America, 
though greatly desired, did not present itself. Could he 
have come, there is little doubt that Princeton would have 
conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Laws in recog- 
nition of his eminent services in the cause of education. 
Our classmates Denny and Eddie Robinson, when at differ- 
ent times touring the Orient, visited and were entertained 
by Orita. 

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ROBERT WILSON PATTERSON died in the Presbyte- 
rian Hospital in Pittsburgh on May 30, 192 1, following an 
operation that was performed two days before. He was 
born in Pittsburgh in 1850. Later the family moved to 
Philadelphia, and that was his home when in 1872 he entered 
Princeton. After graduation he made his home in Pitts- 
burgh and studied law there and in the Harvard Law 
School. 

In 1882 he was married to Miss Elizabeth Stewart John- 
ston, and to them were born four children, of whom three 
are living, Joseph, Robert W., Jr., of the Class of '13, and 
Mrs. Thomas M. Marshall, III. He is also survived by his 
widow and a brother, Thomas H. Hoge Patterson, of Phila- 
delphia, and two grandchildren. 

"Patt" was an ardent student of literature, art and music, 
and was noted for his knowledge and love of the classics, 
especially the Latin authors. In his college days the walls of 
his rooms were covered with photographs of famous scenes 
and pictures and sculptures, many of which he had gathered 
in Europe. He was a student of Shakespeare and could 
quote from many of the plays at length, but the Latin 
authors gave him most pleasure, especially Horace. 

Many years ago Robert began the collection of rare and 
beautifully bound editions of Latin writers, notably Vergil 
and Horace, and presented them to the Princeton Univer- 
sity Library. Some of these copies had been in the posses- 
sion of famous men of letters and of kings of France. 
Among them are first editions, rare translations, exquisitely 
illuminated volumes, early manuscripts, extra-illustrated 
books, and several letters by early friends and benefactors 
of Princeton. The collection of Horaces alone numbers 
about a thousand volumes, and there are three or four hun- 
dred other books. One of the last things "Patt" did before 
being taken to the hospital was to pack some books for 
Princeton, to be added to the collection bearing his name. 

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A devoted friend of the University, a loyal member of 
his Class, "Patt" was often in Princeton, especially at Com- 
mencement, and always at class reunions. Although modest 
and retiring, he was a delightful companion, with a wonder- 
ful fund of information on many subjects, and a keen sense 
of humor. Probably no one of his Class was more highly 
esteemed or regarded with deeper affection than he. 

"Patt" had a deeply religious nature. He observed not 
only the spirit but the letter of the law. He lived a spotless 
life and left a spotless name, charitable in words and ac- 
tions. He led a shielded life, "procul negotiis," "solutus 
omni fenore" yet he had a mighty strength of character and 
exerted great influence for good. "On a plus d'influence par 
ce qu'on est, que par ce qu'on fait." Robert was a member 
of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church. The funeral was 
held on Thursday, June 2, and among the bearers were 
Bonner and E. Lyon. 

President Hibben wrote in a letter to Robert, Jr. : "I 
remember meeting your father from time to time during my 
visits to Pittsburgh and always with great pleasure to my- 
self. His continued and generous interest in Princeton for 
many years has been most gratifying. He has placed us 
all under a debt of gratitude for his wise and generous pro- 
vision for our library. He always seemed to me to com- 
bine in his personality the flower as well as the fruit of 
knowledge. It has been a privilege to know one such as your 
father who lived so completely in the realm of the mind 
and spirit." H. L. H. 

DAVID VANDERVEER PERRINE, A.B., A.M. 

"Freehold, N. J., May 2, 1921. 
"My dear General: 

"What have I been doing and have I been successful? 
A good deal of nothing, a busy life and not much to show 

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for it. Sam Cowart and I have been struggling along, but 
I don't think either of us have done for '76 what we should 
have done. Shame on us, we are not a credit to the town 
from which we come. I remember the first day at Prince- 
ton on entering Dickinson Hall along with Barkley, Cowart, 
Henderson and Parker, on the blackboard of the recitation 
room there was written 'Do all and the best you can for 
the honor of '76.' 

"I began wrong when I endeavored to take the cane from 
Alex. T. Ormond, and I have been going wrong ever since 
— the reason of it was I was always striving for the un- 
attainable, and yet I think this striving has made a better 
man of me. As has been said of the unfortunate lover — 
'Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at 
all.' Yet some of our townsmen have said that both Sam 
and I have been very successful. I cannot speak for Sam, 
but I hold as far as myself is concerned I am a failure as 
long as I am not able to reach the unattainable. 

"As for war record, I joined the Home Guards of Free- 
hold and trained and marched with them to the last. Yet 
it pleased me more to march at the head of the column as 
a guard of honor in welcoming home our 'overseas boys' 
than it did, with rifle slung over shoulders, to escort them 
to the train on their departure for the training camps. 

"I have a good wife, no one has a better. We are living 
happily, in good health, and expect to be here among our 
friends, God permitting, at least thirty years longer. I 
hope to see you not only at our forty-fifth, but at our 
seventy-fifth Reunion. 

"Very truly yours, 

"David Vanderveer Perrine." 

The evening Davy wrote the above, "the unattainable" 
had eluded his grasp, viz: the possession of the keys to his 
place of business where he had planned to spend several 

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hours in labor, and this fact may have tinged his view of 
his career. At the Reunion he was most cheerful and his 
state of mind and conversation were quite out of harmony 
with much that he has written. Indeed reports indicate that 
his life has been a successful one in all that constitutes true 
success : — a happy home, a good business, the respect of the 
community, a useful position in the church, what more can 
one want? 

In a letter written in 19 18 Davy offers a lot at Mana- 
squan "as a gift to the Class of '76, the price you get "for 
disposing of the same can be added to the class funds." 

HOWARD PLUMLEY— "CLASS BOY" 

"ion Myrtle St., Scranton, Pa., 

"August 21, 1921. 
"My dear Mr. Harrison: 

"It is certainly a pleasure to learn that the Class of '76 
still has enough interest in the 'Class Boy' to wish a report 
published in the new Record. 

"When I wrote you in 191 1 my mother was in very poor 
health. I am very glad to state that she has fully recovered 
and is at present very well. She and my sister Sallie are 
spending the summer at Asbury Park, N. J. Sallie is a 
teacher of the deaf and dumb. In the winter mother makes 
her home with Sallie and Margaret at 2.yy Henry St., Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. 

"Margaret is the Office Secretary for the Committee on 
Dispensary Developments at 15 West 43rd St., New York. 

"Stuart is district Sales Manager at Chicago, 111., for the 
Davis-Bournaville Co. of New York. 

"Gardiner is Senior member of the Plumley-Walters En- 
gineering Co. of Charleston, W. Va. 

"The first of last February I severed my connection with 
the Cherry River Paper Co. of this city, whom I served for 

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eleven years, and became the Assistant to the Vice-President 
and Trust Officer of the Third National Bank of Scranton. 
I am still Treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church and 
also of the Scranton Society for the Prevention and Cure 
of Consumptives. Mrs. Plumley and I have one daughter, 
Emily Louise Plumley, born on October 17, 191 1. 

"I wish to say to the Class that if any of them are ever 
in the vicinity of Scranton I should be very glad to have 
them look me up. 

"With kindest regards to the Class, I am, 

"Very sincerely, 

"Howard Plumley." 

REV. HARRIS G. RICE, A.B., A.M., B.D. (Auburn 
Seminary 1921). 

"De Graff, Ohio, June 20, 1921. 
"Dear General: 

"My mother was a Milligan. Her father and grand- 
father were Ayrshire people emigrating to Ireland, and 
then emigrating the second time to central Pennsylvania, 
Perry County. When Washington was made the capital 
of our nation, one of our relatives, a Milligan, was the only 
Bookseller and Publisher and lender of books in the town ; 
and members of Congress crowded his place of business. 
That was one of the germs of the great Public Library, a 
small germ; but I am told that germs are small. 

"A little bit of my blood came from Eisleben, Germany, 
through a German named Ickes, a farmer for William Penn 
on the banks of the Schuylkill. Grandfather Rice was a 
Judge in Perry Co., Pa. My birthplace was in Ickesburg, 
established as a town by Grandaddy Ickes, who had two 
wives, and twenty children, one of them, the seventh, be- 
coming my grandmother Rice. See? 

"My father was a storekeeper in the village of Ickesburg 

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when I was born in 1853, Oct. 1st. He moved out to his 
farm when I was three years of age, where I learned to 
swing the cradle and the scythe, passing through the grades 
of the country school. I could cipher, read well, and always 
enjoyed writing essays ; some times they took the form of 
rhyme. 'He that hath no music in his soul' say, General, 
look that up and complete it, please. 

"In 1870 father built us a good brick house in New 
Bloomfield, into which we moved and I bade farewell to 
country life, and took my leave of the public school to enter 
Bloomfield Academy, from whose halls many boys and girls 
have passed into the colleges and seminaries of the land. 
It was a good school and is a good one yet. 

"I entered the College of New Jersey in September, 1873, 
Sophomore class, having two conditions, which I never was 
obliged to work off. It has seemed to me often that the 
Freshmen had always some advantage over me, because my 
classmates have always talked more about that year than 
any other when we come together. The first part of Sopho- 
more year was the hardest part of any year for me, until 
I got the swing of it. My teachers in Bloomfield Academy 
were first class, and I had done good work all the way 
through. I was not ashamed of my record when it came 
to graduation day, having been granted a place on the pro- 
gramme when we received our diplomas in the Second Pres- 
byterian Church. 

"During the latter part of our Senior year a great re- 
vival under Moody came to the boys in Princeton, 200 of 
them hopefully deciding for the Lord. I was one of them. 
Memories of Van Deusen, Robinson, Beach, the Wilsons, 
Martin, Shoemaker, Wishard, Laughlin, Plumley and others 
never fade from memory. 

"Four or five of us went out to Griggstown and Frank- 
lin Park to extend the influence of those special meetings 

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and large numbers were added to those churches. This ex- 
perience probably led me finally into the ministry, although 
I was ambitious to enter the profession of teaching. I was 
Principal of the Van Wert, Ohio, High School for one 
year, and during that year it seemed to me to be my clear 
duty to enter the Seminary, which I did in September, 
1877, Union Seminary in New York, completing a three 
years' course in 1880. Jefferson, Iowa, Presbyterian Church 
gave me a call to become its pastor, and I labored there for 
seven years, helping the Home Mission Committee to or- 
ganize a number of churches in Fort Dodge Presbytery, 
which at that time embraced one-fourth of the State of 
Iowa and all of South Dakota. Some of the delegates to 
our meetings in Sioux City traveled 200 miles to be present 
with us. 

"It was here that Rilla Hays of Indianapolis, Ind., and I 
were married, and here our oldest son, Charles Herbert, was 
born. Herbert graduated from Wooster in 1906, spent two 
years in India, and then returned to take Theology in Au- 
burn Seminary, from which he graduated in 191 1. He went 
back to India and has been teaching Psychology and Phi- 
losophy in Forman College, at Lahore, ever since. He is 
now a Fellow in the Graduate College of Princeton, during 
his furlough this year, and hopes to earn his degree from 
Princeton. His wife was Mary Compton, only daughter 
of Prof. Elias Compton, of Wooster. 

"T was pastor at Seven Mile, Ohio, for two years; then 
pastor at Delphi, Ind., for five years, where two of our 
children were born. Helen, after taking four years of col- 
lege life in Coe, Wooster, and Indianapolis, became a 
teacher for five years in the Indian School at Dwight, Okla. 
She was married October 31, 191 7 to Rev. Harry W. Mil- 
ler, now at Ada, Okla. He is a special Director of the Boy 
Scouts in the Southwestern District. One son was born to 

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them, Keith Rice Miller, Nov. 17, 1920. Paul Harper Rice 
graduated from Wooster in 1916; gave a year and a half 
to the Aviation Service of the War, taking his ground 
school work in Princeton, and graduated in 192 1 at the Law- 
School, Western Reserve College, Cleveland. He practices 
law in that city. 

"We removed to Monticello, Ind., in 1895, and I was 
pastor there for thirteen years, where three of our children 
were born. William Hays Rice, who graduated from the 
University of Vermont, Medical Department, in 1919 and 
is now practicing medicine in Osborn, Ohio. His wife, 
Blanche Greene, graduated from the University as a nurse 
that same year. They were married June 3, 1920 and have 
one son, Harold, born Feb. 28, 1921. William and his wife 
are under appointment by the Board of Foreign Missions 
to go to India as medical missionaries. 

"Mabel Dorothy Rice graduated from the Musical De- 
partment of Maryville College, and was a splendid student 
in music and literature in Oberlin, Ohio, for two years. She 
is now teaching music and art in public schools, as well as 
giving lessons on the piano and pipe organ in De Graff, 
Ohio. Genevieve Milligan Rice is a Senior in the High 
School and headed for college somewhere next year. 

"We went to Iowa a second time in 1907 for five years 
of work in Albia. Then we came to Ohio, where we have 
lived and worked for the past nine years, in Seven Mile, 
and Osborn, and now in De Graff, where I became pastor 
September 1, 1920. 

"Forty-one years of busy pastoral life!! in three States; 
and I am able to stay right by it today, thanks to the good- 
ness of our Heavenly Father. 

"While engaged in preaching it has been my lot some- 
how to be a clerk of some kind nearly all the while, and to 
hold membership on various exacting committees of the 

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Presbyteries. Stated Clerk of Fort Dodge and Logansport 
Presbyteries for eleven years ; Permanent Clerk of Iowa and 
Indiana Synods for fifteen years. It has sometimes seemed 
to me that had I been less employed with the details of 
managing church affairs I should have become a better 
preacher. 

"I have prepared 1666 sermons and addresses, and have 
preached many times. 

"Our Reunion of five years ago was the only one I have 
been privileged to attend since our graduation. It was a 
great joy to be present, forty-two of us, of the 157 in all. 
I shall never forget those five days of pleasure, for they 
gave me a new lease upon life, I do think. God bless my 
classmates every one ! ! 

"Life for me grows larger and richer every year. Peo- 
ple have been liberal and good to me and mine. I have no 
complaint to make. I have received probably far more of 
good than I ever deserved. I am turning into my 426. year 
of ministerial service with vigor and hopefulness. The 
world grows better all the while, in spite of wars and ru- 
mors which fill our ears these troubled days. Civilization 
grows and these contortions of mankind are simply evi- 
dences that we are alive and growing. 

"Fellows, let us make our next five years the best yet. 
"Sincerely yours, in the Bonds of '76, 

"Harris G. Rice." 

Mrs. Rice, with her son Herbert and his wife, called at 
Headquarters Saturday evening, June 18, 'and were treated 
finely' by Brown, Wilson, Barkley, Smith and others. They 
enjoyed every minute. Ever thine, 

"H. G. Rice." 



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CHANDLER WHITE RIKER died at his residence in 
Newark, N. J., July 4, 1919, of an acute attack of diabetes. 
For years his health had not been robust and on that account 
he gave up the active practice of the law in 1910, enjoying 
life in a quiet way with books, cards, golf and driving. He 
was born in Newark December 3, 1855, the son of William 
Riker and Sarah M. Hunter Riker. From the Newark 
Academy he entered Princeton in 1872 and soon took a con- 
spicuous standing in his studies, especially in mathematics 
in which he won a fellowship, his rank at graduation being 
eighth. After a year's study abroad he took the Columbia 
Law School course, was admitted to the bar and entered 
upon the practice of his profession in Newark, being soon 
joined by his brother Adrian of the Class of '78. 

In 1886 he became Corporation Counsel for the Board 
of Freeholders of Essex County, in 1894 Newark City 
Counsel, during which term he handled many intricate cases. 
In 1895 he was tendered, and declined, an appointment by 
the Governor as Circuit Court Judge. In 1898 the Gover- 
nor appointed him Prosecutor for Essex County, and he 
served until 1903. He was also president of the Equal 
Taxation Commission, and member of a Commission to 
Revise the General Election Laws of New Jersey. Mr. 
Riker was successful as counsel for municipal corporations, 
having held this advisory relation with twenty-one cities, 
towns and other incorporated bodies. At one time he was 
prominently mentioned as a Republican candidate for Gov- 
ernor, at another time for the United States Senate, and 
for years he was influential in Republican politics, both 
county and State. He had a brilliant mind and such at- 
tractive social qualities that his classmates regretted that 
professional engagements kept him from class gatherings. 

He was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church. Among 
his clubs were the Essex, the New York Harbor, the Marine, 

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Country and the University. On October 15, 1891, he was 
married to Mollie Blair Snyder, daughter of William V. 
Snyder, a leading Newark merchant, who survives him, 
with three daughters and a son. The eldest daughter re- 
ceived a special service medal from the French Secretary 
of State for war relief work done in the Red Cross in re- 
construction and refugee work in Southern France. 

H. L. H. 

ALDEN KELLOGG RILEY, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

"Tulsa, Okla., July 11, 192 1. 
"Dear Harrison : 

"Mrs. Riley was run over by a seven-passenger Cadillac 
car on the streets of Tulsa, December, 1918, with the life 
nearly crushed out of her. I closed my office and have 
given her my personal attention ever since. My son Rob- 
ert was in a car that went over an embankment on the 
'Katy' (M. K. & T. R. R.) out of Dallas that finally re- 
sulted in paralysis on the right side, just sixty days after 
Mrs. Riley's accident. I have given these two my whole 
time for two and a half years and they are restored to 
health once more and we are a happy family. I expect to 
get back to life's duties in a business way this fall. 

"The story of the race riot is a long one. We saw the 
scenes of the sacking and destruction of French cities re- 
enacted in a vivid way. Tulsa does things. She did not 
fail in this instance. It was participated in by parties on 
both sides who had been over there. This made it seem 
very like over there. All charitable institutions have done 
their part for the innocent and the courts are after the 
guilty. Little Africa, once a city of 12,000 to 15,000, lies 
in ruins with one-half her people gone. The number of 
dead and wounded on both sides will not be publicly known. 

"I was at the hotel on the main street of the city. The 

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negroes were firing down the principal streets, killing in- 
nocent whites, bullets were flying past my windows and I 
had sense enough to keep out of their way. All the whites 
were ordered indoors, and as soon as the blacks had been 
driven back to Little Africa, every ambulance in the city 
for the rest of the night was driving through the streets at 
full speed, with gongs ringing, bearing dead and wounded 
to hospitals, churches and every conceivable depository, 
even the City Auditorium and Fair Grounds had to be 
requisitioned. 

"In the great war we did our best. One boy passed but 
didn't get across. 

"Fraternally, 
"A. K. R." 

In 1918 he wrote: "I am sleepy today, for the Record 
came yesterday and I sat up very late last night in going 
over it. It is a treasure and is full of valuable information. 
Time has so changed the boys that I catch the familiar 
looks of long ago only on a few." 

REV. EDWIN P. ROBINSON, A.B., A.M. 

"Harrisburg, Pa., Y. M. C. A., 

"July 22, 192 1. 
"My dear 'General': 

"So you think I've been a little tardy in replying to your 
several importunates relative to my whereabouts and 
status. Well, the fact of the matter is I have very scant 
material to report about. My work has been in connection 
with the Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, 
Pa., with special interest in some of the foreigners of the 
city, especially Greeks, Chinese, Italians and Hebrews, 
bearing on Christian, Educational and Americanization 
lines. 

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"I enjoyed our Reunion more than I can express. To me 
it was the 'best ever' and I wish many more might have 
been present. My permanent home address is Dauphin, Pa., 
and temporary is Y. M. C. A., Harrisburg, Pa. Begging 
for a generous pardon for not writing sooner, I remain 
most cordially and sincerely, 

"Yours in the bonds of '76, 

"Edwin P. Robinson, 
" 'Robbie.' " 

WILBER F. RUDY, A.B., A.M., LL.B. No report. 

HENRY M. RUSSELL, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

"Hamilton, New York, July 28, 192 1. 
"My dear General : 

"Since the last report for the Record quite a number of 
changes have come to me. I gave up business early in 1920 
and spent a year in Belvidere, Illinois. In April of this 
year I removed to this place. It is my native town and as 
I have been here almost every year of my life it has al- 
ways been a second home to me. It is a college town, be- 
ing the seat of Colgate University, and a most beautiful 
place. The social atmosphere of the town is dominated by 
the college and is very superior. I have quite a number of 
friends among the Faculty of the college and so I am sur- 
rounded with an air of education and learning that is most 
agreeable and pleasing. In addition to these advantages 
the village is a charming one and is beautifully located in 
the lovely Chenango valley, so I am most happily situated. 
There is one Princeton man on the Faculty and I expect to 
meet him in the fall and have some delightful sessions 
with him. 

"Since our Reunion my thoughts have constantly re- 

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curred to that delightful time and I have lived over in 
memory those few happy days. It was a most delightful 
occasion and was, in many respects, the most successful we 
have ever held. Never have I seen so much of the true 
affection and love for one another — for which old '76 is 
famous — as was shown at the Reunion this year. All were 
there to enjoy each other and the familiar old place, and 
they did it with a will. Everything passed off perfectly, the 
weather was all that could be asked, all were happy. Out- 
side attractions were of little account to the boys and they 
preferred to remain at the clubhouse and enjoy the society 
of each other. It was truly a reunion and was an occasion 
never to be forgotten. I also heard on the outside many 
remarks to the same effect. We have held many delight- 
ful reunions — they never are anything else — but never so 
fine a one as that of this year. It was a glorious festival 
and will never fade from the memory of the boys fortunate 
enough to be on hand to participate in it. 

"As ever, 

"Henry M. Russell." 

GEORGE DRAKE SCUDDER was born in Trenton, N. 
J., January 17, 1856, the son of Edward Wallace Scudder, 
LL.D., Princeton 1841, and Mary Louisa (Drake) Scud- 
der. The father was a Justice of the New Jersey Supreme 
Court from 1869 to 1893. George received his preparation 
for college at the State Model School, Trenton, and entered 
Princeton in September, 1872. After graduation he studied 
law in his home town, was admitted to the bar as an at- 
torney-at-law in June, 1879, after which he opened an of- 
fice for the practice of his profession in Trenton. In 1882 
he became a counsellor-at-law, a Master and Examiner in 
Chancery in New Jersey, and in 1894 he was admitted to 
the practice of law in Ohio. 

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While visiting his college roommate, Jack Miller, in Ports- 
mouth, Ohio, George met Miss Harriet Helen Damarin, to 
whom he was married November 20, 1879. They had one 
son, Charles Damarin Scudder, a graduate of Princeton in 
the Class of 1907. 

In 1882 and 1883 George was a member of the Common 
Council of Chambersburg, a suburb of Trenton, and dur- 
ing the winter of 1886-7 ne was m tne lower house of the 
New Jersey Legislature, but declined a nomination the fol- 
lowing year. In December, 1893, ill health compelled him 
to give up business. During the year following he spent 
several months in Europe traveling, and after his return 
again fell ill and suffered from poor health for several 
years. In 1894 with his family he took up his residence in 
Portsmouth, Ohio. Here he continued the. practice of law, 
but devoted more and more time to educational, philan- 
thropic and church interests. He was elected a trustee of 
Wooster University, a trustee of the Public Library, a mem- 
ber of the Board of Education of Portsmouth, a member of 
the Executive Committee of the Children's Home of Scioto 
County. While living in Trenton he was made an Elder in 
the Bethany Presbyterian Church, and after moving to 
Portsmouth he became an Elder in the First Presbyterian 
Church and later the Superintendent of the Sunday School, 
holding both these positions until his death, the former 
more than thirty years, the latter twenty. A number of 
times he was a Commissioner to the General Assembly of 
the Presbyterian Church and for three years a member of 
the Executive Commission of that Church. 

For many years George's health had not been robust and 
on different occasions had prevented his attendance at Class 
Reunions and other Princeton gatherings, but it was a shock 
to many to learn that he had passed away on March 9, 
192 1, at his home. Surviving are the wife, the son and 
two grandchildren. 

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In college George's genial ways, his buoyancy of spirit, 
his courtesy and consideration for others won him a host of 
friends, and the intimacy was maintained by frequent meet- 
ings at Princeton games and Class Reunions, indeed there 
were few of the latter that he missed, and only ill-health 
kept him away. A loyal friend, a loyal classmate, an ardent 
Princetonian, a devoted upholder of the highest interests 
in Church and State, his passing leaves a vacancy that may 
not readily be filled. H. L. H. 

In the death of George D. Scudder the Class of '76 has 
lost a loyal member, his family a devoted and loving hus- 
band and father, and the community a faithful and useful 
citizen. His life has been a splendid one, well planned and 
nobly wrought out. The world is richer for his having 
lived in it and the poorer for his being taken away. He 
loved his fellows and was ever engaged in what made for 
righteousness and good living. In his Master's word he 
put his trust and he was always ready to assist in whatever 
tended to advance His cause. No one who knew him could 
fail to note that this was the controlling factor in his life 
and that he fully lived up to his belief. In the church he 
took a prominent part as Elder and gave of his time and 
means generously. Though by nature a most genial man 
and of a happy disposition, he was always mindful of the 
seriousness of life, and he was possessed of a quiet, gentle 
dignity that was ever charming and delightful. 

These principles went with him into every pursuit and 
were of great and permanent value in his chosen profession 
of the law. Here he was highly respected and esteemed 
for his probity of character and his broad legal attainments. 
His mind was clear, keen and logical in mastering the 
facts in a case and then of applying the law to them. In 
practice he was regarded as a safe and sound counsellor 

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and his opinions were accorded much deference. He was 
of a decided judicial temperament and would have been ar. 
ornament to any court and graced the seat of any tribunal. 
But he preferred the quiet life of the lawyer to the more 
public career of the magistrate. 

While we admired him for his sturdy Christian character, 
yet it was in the more intimate relations which he bore with 
us as classmates that we most loved him. His heart was 
ever with the boys of '76 and none was more loyal than 
he to the interests of the Class. 

Nothing pleased him better than to gather with the fel- 
lows and renew the spirit of the olden time and recount 
some of the many happenings of our college days. The 
Reunions of the Class held an especial attraction for him 
and he was rarely absent from any of them. At these gath- 
erings he was among the happiest of all the happy throng 
and enjoyed every moment of the festival. The passing 
hours were filled with joy for him and it was with deep 
regret that he grasped hands in parting. We shall miss 
him as we gather in the future, but we will remember his 
noble life and its splendid influence. 

In his later years he suffered extremely from an in- 
curable disease, but here, as in all other positions, he was 
the same quiet, gentle and dignified "Scud" that we had 
always known and loved. He kept his sorrows and suffer- 
ings to himself that he might not wound the feelings of 
others. Such a life has left great influence for good and 
will go on in its work forever. We are thankful that he 
was one of us and loved us, and rejoice that we knew and 
loved him. He has left us and we shall never see him on 
earth again, but he has gone to join the dear ones who have 
gone before him and there he stands waiting to receive us 
and join with us in that Grand Reunion that shall never 
end. Good night, "Scud," my brother. H. M. R. 

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In the death of George Drake Scudder the city of Ports- 
mouth has lost a helpful friend. During his citizenship here 
he unassumingly took the side of those things that resulted 
not only in general good of the community but to the per- 
sonal good of every individual. The years of his time that 
he gave to the public schools of this city are services for 
which there is general appreciation. He did not expect pay 
but in his goodness of heart he constantly gave the schools 
his personal attention and was always present at meetings 
of the board if his health permitted. Much credit can be 
given to him for the fine structures that have been erected 
in this city, for he assisted in leading the way to their con- 
struction. 

George Drake Scudder's devotion to church work is 
widely known. He was a Christian every day in the week 
including Sunday, and he practiced exactly what he believed 
in and lived the life every day. He had a Christian's dis- 
position, and he immediately saw the right side and aligned 
himself with it, worked with it, encouraged it and stood 
for it and by it. 

Another side to George Scudder was his charity side. He 
probably assisted more men, women and children in Ports- 
mouth who needed assistance than any man in it. And his 
helpfulness was not confined to this city. He has con- 
tributed to the associated charities of cities and towns out- 
side of the city, though his name did not appear, as he was 
one who did not love publicity. A more reserved and un- 
pretentious man never lived than George Drake Scudder, 
yet he was worthy of publicity because of his great work 
in all those movements that enter into making life more 
worth living, of adding cheer and contentment to the op- 
pressed, of building up the city and beautifying its streets 
and its parks. 



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In the death of George Drake Scudder Portsmouth has 
lost one of its very best friends. 

[From an editorial in a Portsmouth paper.] 

The one clear call — the homeward call of peace — whose 
summons drew our brother and friend, George D. Scudder, 
from this mortal life unto life eternal, left for us all a heavy 
burden of grief and loss. 

No member of the Session would wish to try to phrase 
what he has been to us and to the church through the years. 
But surely none could have been more faithful, loving, loyal 
than he. He had but one thought — to promote the kingdom 
of his Master in and through the church he loved. And 
this desire he made most effective in the service he stood 
ever ready to perform. 

To us, his brothers in service, he has been an ideal ex- 
ample of true Christian fellowship and brotherhood, while 
each pastor has always found in him a strong, true friend 
on whom he could always lean, and whose assistance was 
invaluable. As a member of the session he has faithfully 
and most efficiently represented his Church and Presbytery 
many times in the larger interests. His superintendency of 
the Bible School for the past twenty years has been a not- 
able achievement, and we have watched him guide many 
into the life of the church through the door that he opened. 
Its present building is due in no small measure to his efforts, 
just as the Manse is another of his dreams come true. 

When illness lay its fell hand on him, still he persisted in 
his duty when others would long since have yielded, coming 
to his old place even when able only to sit on the platform. 
Small wonder that the universal love borne him is the chief 
thing we will remember him by. 

At last he has found peace, rest, and the only reward he 
would ask — to "walk with the King." And we have found 

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that he is indeed "not lost but gone before" ; we have found 
waiting in his place the work he left for us to do, and we 
mean that it shall be done — as by him. 

[Minute adopted by the Session of the Church.] 

REV. LEBBEUS JAMES SHOEMAKER, A.B., A.M., 
B.D. 

"I still preach for the Providence Baptist Church as per 
last report, and am in my tenth year as its pastor. This 
last year the accessions to the church were twenty-three. 

"At my time of life, aged 72, I am not seeking a new 
pastorate nor have been asked to resign. Through the kind- 
ness of our son, Lorraine, President of the American Pret- 
zel Co., my wife and I have a home at Gardner, Pa., on the 
Pittsburgh, Harmony, and New Castle Trolley Line, about 
a dozen miles from the church. Call to see us, or if you 
want further information and are in Philadelphia, call at 
the President's Office, 1326 Widener Building. 

"Rev. Albert J. R., our second son, and Agnes J. Dona- 
hue of Hartford, Conn., were married January 25, 1919. 
His office is 832 Bigelow Boulevard, Pittsburgh, Pa. He is 
Director of Religious Education of the Pittsburgh Baptist 
Association. 

"Lorraine Virginia, daughter of Lorraine J. and Dorothy 
T., was born February 12, 1919. The mother died three 
days later. This was the year of the Flu, when so many 
homes were broken. 

"The boys were in the last call for war service. Albert 
was examined and passed, but the war closed before he was 
sent out. Lorraine was war Inspector for the bakeries of 
Philadelphia. The rest of us did Red Cross work. 

"Florence E. is a volunteer for Foreign Mission work." 



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REV. J. A. LIVINGSTON SMITH, A.B., A.M. 

"York, Pa., January 31, 1921. 
"Dear 'General' Harrison: 

"I have had five of the happiest, busiest and most service- 
able years of my ministry since our last Reunion, without 
any serious illness, despite my 'oft infirmities.' I have been 
supplying vacant pulpits on an average of three-fourths of 
all the intervening Sabbaths, and continually engaged in 
some form of Christian service at all other times, and have 
found the grace of God in endurance and in enjoyment of 
the ministry to be ever increasing as the years roll on. 

"In view of my lifelong affliction and frequent prostra- 
tions and threatened ending of my service (and even of 
life), my prolonged life and present enjoyment of the min- 
istry is the greatest miracle I know. 'God is good/ 

"One grandchild has been born since the last report, Wil- 
liam Smith Wilkinson, August 8, 191 7. 

"My son-in-law, Col. W'illiam D. Herbert, M.D., was a 
medical officer of the regular U. S. Army, in charge of Base 
Hospital No. 48 in France from July 4, 1918, to October, 
1919. We and our children contributed in every possible 
way to the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and other organizations. 

"If spared, I want to be at the greatest event in our Class 
history, the coming 45th anniversary. In any event you can 
assure our dear classmates of my ever increasing love and 
my prayerful intercessions for them and theirs, while con- 
fidently depending on theirs for me and mine. 

"Fraternally and affectionately yours, 

" 'Jai' Smith." 

In a previous letter he states that in his scrap-book he 
has the final grades and standing of every member of the 
Class, which shows that "I graduated 36th, with a grade of 
89.9 and Jim Barkley 35th, with a grade of 90 — the mini- 

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mum grade for the honor-roll, so that we were both in 
error in our statements in the last Record." 

Under date of February, 1920, he wrote: "The past 
year has been one of the busiest and happiest of my later 
ministry; I have in the past twelve months preached on at 
least forty Sabbaths and traveled 7000 miles in meeting my 
appointments in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and have 
met a more cordial reception of the old gospel, the only 
panacea for a sadly stricken world." 

In the spring of 1921 "Jai" had an attack of pleurisy, but 
recovered fully and was able to be one of the gathering at 
Princeton in June, of which he wrote July 8, 192 1, "I want 
to thank you and all the dear fellows of '76 for the best of 
all our Class Reunions. I dared not hope that we could 
ever surpass our 40th, but we did it. That prayer-meeting 
was a memorable experience and will be a joy and inspira- 
tion to me 'till we meet again/ here or in the better world. 
God bless the boys who made it what it was and brightened 
all the days that are yet to be." 

MOSES ALLEN STARR, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., Sc.D. 

"I have little to add to the last report in the line of pro- 
fessional work. When the Trustees of Columbia accepted 
my resignation in 191 5 and appointed me Emeritus Profes- 
sor, I made a number of recommendations regarding the 
future policy of the department of Neurology in the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons. These have been carried 
out in full, and a laboratory has been built and established 
for the study of neurological anatomy and pathology and 
for post-graduate research in these subjects. This labora- 
tory has been named for me, and much good original work 
is in progress in it. 

"The war called for active service for physicians in many 
lines of work. In common with other men in New York, 

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whose age prevented enrollment, I was called upon to give 
instruction in neurology to the young physicians who were 
enrolled, and I held clinics and delivered lectures to groups 
of these men all through the war. I assisted in organizing 
special courses in neurology at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons and at the New York Neurological Institute, 
and I held clinics at the Gun Hill Hospital, organized by 
Columbia and taken over by the U. S. Army, up to the time 
of the armistice, and for some time after that, as many 
cases of war wounds of the nervous system and many cases 
of shell shock and functional nervous affections and mental 
diseases were treated in that hospital until 1920. 

"My chief publications since the last report are: 'The 
King's Evil, and its Relation to Psychotherapy,' N. Y. 
Medical Record, Dec. 29, 1917; the Oration in Medicine 
before the Medical Society of New Jersey, June 26, 1918, 
on 'War Strain and Shell Shock,' published in the Journal 
of the Medical Society of New Jersey, July, 1918; 'Shell 
Shock,' in Scribner's Monthly Magazine, July, 1918; 'The 
Occupation Cure for Shell Shock,' in The Touchstone, Oc- 
tober, 1918.'" 

REV. ALEXANDER RUSSELL STEVENSON, A.B., 
D.D. 

Russell is pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of 
Schenectady, N. Y. His son Stuart Riddle Stevenson, 
Princeton 1918, was married on June 5, 1920, to Miss Irene 
Davis, daughter of Mrs. S. T. Davis, Jr., of Ardsley-on- 
Hudson, N. Y. 

His son, A. R. Stevenson, Jr., Princeton 1914, was a 
First Lieutenant in the Air Service and was in France for 
fifteen months. S. R. Stevenson '18 was an Ensign in the 
Navy, stationed at Newport, R. I. 

Russell was not able to attend the Reunion. It was said 

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that he had recently resigned the active duties of pastor 
and had been made Pastor Emeritus. 

REV. GEORGE B. STEWART, D.D. and LLD. Washing- 
ton and Jefferson, S.T.D. Hobart College. 

"Life has moved on like a song since the last report, ex- 
cept for the war. There was not much music in that. My 
neighbors thought I could help win the war and so the 
Mayor appointed me chairman of the Mayor's Defense Com- 
mittee, the Governor did the same for the County Defense 
Committee, I was chairman of the Red Cross Executive 
Committee, and subsequently President of that organiza- 
tion, Chairman of the County Relief Committee, Member 
of the War Chest Board, enlisted in State Home Guard, 
No. i in No. 2 squad, and connected with a few other odd 
jobs. Therefore, when I was asked to go overseas, as I 
was three times, my neighbors said they could not spare me 
and forbade me to go. I suspect they thought I would be 
no good over there anyhow. I did not talk neutral nor think 
neutral ; did not believe in peace without victory ; did not 
hold the doctrine that we were not interested in the causes 
or the issues of the war ; was opposed to the League Cove- 
nant and to mandate for Armenia; believe that America 
should not be isolated but should bear her share of the 
world's burden, nevertheless she is the one to determine 
when she is to act and where. No superstate for me. 

"Harris B. Stewart was a corporal in the State Guard and 
subsequently in the Chaplain service, was discharged short- 
ly after the armistice. 

"George B. Stewart, Jr., was during the whole war look- 
ing after the interests of the Syrian Protestant College, 
Beirut, Syria, and serving as Red Cross director there, suf- 
fering great hardship, in constant peril, and rendering in- 



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valuable service to international interests in the enemy coun- 
try. 

"Weir Stewart was sixteen months in the British Y. M. 
C. A. service with the British forces in Mesopotamia, en- 
tering Baghdad with General Maude's army, dangerously 
ill, invalided home; as soon as able he enlisted in the Air 
Service, in which he was serving at the time of the armistice. 

"Weir Stewart was married June 28, 1921, at Buffalo, N. 
Y., in the Westminster Church, to Miss Margaret Penney, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Penney. 

"George B., Jr., has had two children born to him in 
Beirut, Syria : George Black, III., born August 8, 1914, and 
Franklin Moore, born December 27, 1917. 

"I am still holding down the same job I have had since 
1899, president of the Seminary, and expect to keep it for 
two or three years yet, if the Directors do not anticipate me 
and send in my resignation before I do. 

"Here's to '76. 

"George Black Stewart, Still Paley, and to '76 

never anything else." 

JOHN MADISON TAYLOR, A.B., A.M., M.D. 

"My dear General: 

"My record is much the same as before. No new titles, 
except a modification of professional title which is : Pro- 
fessor of Physical Therapeutics and Dietetics, Medical De- 
partment, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa. 

"History: well, I keep on practicing medicine, and shall 
do so as long as my constitution remains so excellent and 
my mind so alert. The distinguishing characteristic seems 
to be initiative, vision along lines direct and collateral, not 
only in medicine but in mental hygiene, social psychology 
and welfare, also in devices for economizing effort and for 
exactitude in recording. 

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"In addition to my earlier contributions I have practi- 
cally done the material for a new book, entitled : 'The Man 
Who Would Be Young at Fifty,' soon to be in press; also 
one on 'Human Readjustment,' the principles of ortho- 
pedics adapted to internal medicine, to which I give the 
name 'ortho-kinetics,' likewise divers essays on allied topics, 
anthropologic and sociologic psychology. 

"My service in the world war was constant and as use- 
ful as possible in view of my age being beyond that of the 
Medical Service Retirement. So I continued to teach medi- 
cal students at the Medical Department, Temple University. 
I did hope to get in harness as a Specialist in reconstruction 
work. I could have been of large usefulness, at least so 
all my colleagues say. But no, Uncle Sam would not even 
accept my volunteer aid. 

"However, I wore the uniform, we organized a Student's 
Army Corps and I rose to Major M.C. Then some of us 
enlisted in the National Guard Regiment, the old 'State 
Fencibles,' formed in 1813. 

"My son Percival was in the Engineer Corps, First Lieu- 
tenant, did not get overseas, but was kept here for train- 
ing others. Of my two adult nephews, one got overseas, 
Captain Billy Taylor; his brother Newbold, who rose to a 
majority in Artillery, did not. 

"Billy Kirk got all sorts of luck in the Navy on the New 
York, and rose to a rank equal to his brother Allen Kirk, 
who was an Annapolis graduate and an expert in ballistics, 
but was kept in some need here till the end of the war. 

"No new grandchildren since last report; four in all. 
"Most cordially yours 'in the bonds of '76/ 

"J. Madison Taylor." 



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PROF. HENRY ALFRED TODD, A.B., Ph.D. 

"Briar Road Cottage, 

"Bass Rocks, Mass., 

"August 4, 1 92 1. 
"My dear General : 

"Please pardon me for being so tardy with this. In 1919 
I was a member of a Special Mission to France to promote 
closer educational and commercial relations between that 
country and the United States. An amusing personal epi- 
sode of this mission was that having incidentally and as the 
only 'outsider,' assisted at the Hotel Crillon in the hurry- 
call translation of the German Counter-Proposals, which 
later — to the great annoyance of President Wilson — were 
unduly divulged in America, I was for some days under 
serious suspicion of being the culprit involved. 

"Our daughter Clover was married on October 16, 1920, 
at 'Woodlands/ Baltimore, to Allen Welsh Dulles, Prince- 
ton 1914, son of the Rev. Dr. Allen M. Dulles, Princeton 
'75, of Auburn Theological Seminary, and nephew of Rob- 
ert Lansing, Esq., of Washington, D. C. Mr. Dulles is in 
the diplomatic service and was a member of the Peace Con- 
ference. The couple are stationed at Constantinople, where 
Mr. Dulles is on duty with the rank of First Secretary of 
the Embassy. 

"I was a dollar-a-year man during the war; Lisa was in 
Y. M. C. A. service at Luneville, Arweiler and Le Mans ; 
Clover in Y. M. C. A. at Monte Carlo and Grenoble; Wal- 
lingford in the Naval Reserve at Newport; Paul at Plum 
Island Camp, L. L, and New York State Camp at Peeks- 
kill, commissioned Lieutenant at Hill School. 

"Very sincerely yours, 

"Henry A. Todd." 



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JOHN S. VAN DIKE, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

"Allentown, N. J., July n, '21. 
"Dear Harrison: 

"I greatly regret that I could not be with you at the re- 
union, but it was impossible. 

"My life for the past five years has been uneventful, and 
spent quietly on the farm, making myself useful when I 
could, and enjoying good health. 

"Hope to see you all at our next reunion, and with kind 
remembrance to you all, I am at heart with you all in the 
bonds of '76. 

"Jno. S. Van Dike." 

WILLIAM BIRD VAN LENNEP, A.B., A.M., M.D., 
F.A.C.S. 

Born in Constantinople December 5, 1853, "Big Van" 
was the son of missionaries, the Rev. Henry J. Van Len- 
nep, D.D., and Emily A. Bird Van Lennep, who were born 
respectively in Smyrna and Beirut. Living in the Orient 
until he was fifteen years old, he acquired that ability to 
speak Modern Greek that so surprised and interested his 
Princeton classmates and friends. With his college prepa- 
ration at the Sedgwick Institute and his unusual ability, 
coupled with a fine physique and attractive social qualities, 
he soon took a good position in all departments of college 
life, literary, musical and athletic, for he stood well in his 
classes, was a member of the University Glee Club, the 
Class and University crews, and often played on the Class 
baseball nine. 

From Princeton Van went to the Hahnemann Medical 
College, Philadelphia, after teaching for a year, and was 
graduated in 1880 with high honors. For a time he served 
as interne at Ward's Island, New York, Hospital, then re- 

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turned to Philadelphia for a year, and in 1882 went to 
Europe, where he studied for nearly two years, most of the 
time in Vienna. Returning to Philadelphia he entered upon 
the practice of his profession, and in a short time was con- 
nected with several hospitals as operating or consulting sur- 
geon. From 1886 he served the Hahnemann Medical Col- 
lege as lecturer on General Pathology and Morbid Anatomy, 
then successively as lecturer on Surgical Pathology, on 
Surgery, as Assistant Professor of Surgery, then as Pro- 
fessor of Surgery, and as Dean from 1910 to 1914. Also 
he was surgeon to the Philadelphia Homoeopathic Hospital 
for Children and the Children's Homoeopathic Hospital, 
and on the consulting staff of the Wilmington and Trenton 
hospitals. 

In 1886 Van was married to Miss Clara Reeves Hart of 
Philadelphia and they had one daughter, who in 1907 was 
married to John D. Elliott, M.D., Princeton '97. The lat- 
ter served overseas in the war, attaining the rank of Major 
in the Army Medical Corps. Dr. and Mrs. Elliott have 
three children, two daughters and a son, all of whom, with 
Mrs. Van Lennep, still survive. 

In May, 1916, at the annual banquet of the Alumni As- 
sociation of the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, 
a portrait of Dr. Van Lennep was presented to the college 
by friends and former pupils and many highly compli- 
mentary speeches were made, a few extracts may be found 
in our last Record. 

Van Lennep rarely, if ever, missed a Class Reunion, often 
coming to Princeton for the day and returning home toward 
evening for an important operation, repeating this day after 
day. His interest in college athletics was shown by long 
membership in the Graduates' Advisory Committee. His 
last illness extended over several weeks and he died Jan- 
uary 9, 191 9. A Memorial Service was held at the Hahne- 

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mann College January 15, Rev. Floyd W. Tomkins pre- 
siding, and the quotations that follow are from addresses 
by Dr. Tomkins, surgeons and laymen at that time : 

" 'He was my friend, faithful and dear to me/ — simple 
words and few, but to those who learned their full sig- 
nificance by association with Dr. William Bird Van Len- 
nep they have a meaning so deep that it is impossible to 
add to them. Dr. Van Lennep was a skillful surgeon, a 
brilliant teacher, and a profound scholar, but above and 
beyond all this he was a great and noble man. 

"For some months past, Dr. Van Lennep's health had 
been impaired as the result of a gradual cardiovascular de- 
generation. About six weeks before his death symptoms of 
a more serious character developed and his ever keen judg- 
mnt caused him to realize that his days of useful activity 
were over. Fortunately he was not confined to his bed but 
was able to be about and even to take short walks up to 
the day of his death. 

"On that fatal day, I had called to see him shortly after 
one o'clock, and, in company with his faithful friend, Dr. 
Frederick W. Smith, was conversing with him in regard 
to the treatment of his condition. 

"I can picture him now as he sat in the old arm chair in 
his 'den' where he spent so many happy hours of his life. 
Suddenly, in the very midst of his conversation, a pallor 
came over his face, his arms relaxed, his head fell back- 
ward, and our beloved friend and teacher was no more.' , 

"Those of you who are of the Alumni well know, and 
the professors and trustees know how big the spirit of Dr. 
Van Lennep was, and how Dr. Van Lennep always thrust 
his whole life into his work. And when he worked his 
virtue went out with him in what he did. It was not only 
in the strength of his service as a surgeon but in the power 
of his personality. 

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"I don't think anybody ever shook hands with Dr. Van 
Lennep without feeling the bigness of his heart; no one 
came into his presence without feeling that his genial greet- 
ing was not only very sincere but very hearty. I love to 
think of that spirit in his work. He had such wonderful 
faith not only in himself but in what he did, and he did 
have a real faith in what he did. There was no pride in 
his victories in surgery, but it was faith, the great faith, 
that he had in his capacities as a surgeon. I doubt whether 
he ever attempted an operation without realizing that it 
was going to be a successful operation providing there was 
nothing hidden which would afterwards appear. 

"There is one thing I want to speak of in addition and 
that is his love for his home, which cannot but set an ex- 
ample to any of you young men who are going out into a 
busy life. He loved his home. Although he was so tre- 
mendously busy he loved to be at home as much as pos- 
sible. There was something infinitely pathetic in the fact 
that after the consultation on the morning of the day in 
which he died he went into his room, sat down in the chair, 
his own chair, in his own room, and simply passed awaj^ 
fell asleep, in the association and surroundings of his home 
life." 

"Dr. Van Lennep's passing creates a void in the medical 
profession which cannot easily be filled. The world at 
large has been deprived of that rare combination of scholar, 
gentleman, loyal friend, a man whose integrity was never 
questioned, whose sincerity was never doubted. In addi- 
tion to his numerous excellent qualities he was endowed 
with an infinite capacity for work, which he applied in an 
unfaltering devotion to the upbuilding of the art of surgery 
and the development of his alma mater. I believe I voice 
the sentiments of his colleagues in the faculty when I say 
that it is largely due to Van Lennep's broad vision, his un- 

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ceasing energy and unflagging zeal that the College stands 
today at the head of the Schools of Homoeopathy in this 
country. 

"Van Lennep's friendship was generous, true, sincere, 
full of the sunshine which he spread about him everywhere. 
'When that man comes into the room,' said a sorely afflicted 
patient on one occasion, 'I feel that the sun is shining here/ 
And thus it was with all of us who knew him well. We 
shall miss the sunshine of his presence, his genial smile, his 
contagious laughter.'' 

"As a teacher of surgery Doctor Van Lennep was unques- 
tionably without a peer. His personal lectures and clinics 
had a finish and style which made them classics of their 
kind and savored strongly of the college-bred man, while 
the educational welfare of the student was always his up- 
permost and his foremost thought. As a medical educator 
and surgeon Dr. Van Lennep always kept fully abreast of 
the day. As an operator he was adept and dextrous, ju- 
diciously conservative and wisely bold. It is my opinion 
that Hahnemann College never had a teacher of surgery 
who was Dr. Van Lennep's equal — undoubtedly he out- 
classed all his predecessors, and at the same time I believe 
it will be many years before another surgeon occupies the 
chair in this institution whose success as a teacher will be 
as phenomenal." 

"Of a massive, robust physical presence, he was an im- 
posing figure in his comings and goings ; he was also the 
soul of manly geniality, and the services which he per- 
formed for the humble as a physician were often under- 
taken in the spirit of unobtrusive but generous aid. He was 
pre-eminently a straightforward thinker in whatever he un- 
dertook, a citizen of the healthiest and heartiest type of 
American patriotism, a friend unfailing, and one of the 
most delightful of those choice spirits whom old Dr. John- 
son described as 'clubable' men." H. L. H. 

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LAPSLEY G. WALKER, A.B., LL.B. 

"Chattanooga, Tenn., July 28, 1921. 
"My dear General : 

"I have been intending to write you from the day I got 
back from my visit to Trenton following the reunion, but 
I have been very busy and, strange enough for me, haven't 
been feeling fit. Besides I wanted to enjoy the quiet and 
undisturbed contemplation of the pleasures and joys of our 
greatest of all reunions and which I am cherishing with 
increasing fondness each day in memory. 

"There have been no changes in my life of any conse- 
quence for many years. I have been here with this news- 
paper for now nearly forty years and its chief editor for 
very nearly twenty years. For the period of my association 
with the Chattanooga Times I have had only one companion 
in my family life, and she is still with me and will, please 
God, remain with me to the end. We have had no children, 
so that the place left in our affection for kiddies of our own 
has been filled, for my part at least, in great measure with 
the love of the splendid men of my college class. 

"And, in this connection, I want to say here that I have 
never, in my whole life, experienced so wholesome, so 
tender and so intense pleasure as it was given me to enjoy 
at this last glorious reunion. The memory of it will re- 
main with me always — one of the most beautiful, most 
solacing and soul-satisfying occasions I have ever known. 
I have the group of the dear old fellows made at this re- 
union hung, facing me in my ofhce, so that, occasionally 
when irked by the exaction of the daily grind of work, I 
can look to it and see the faces that hearten and encourage 
and jolly me on with gladness in my heart and renewed 
vigor in my hands and brain. There's Jeff, Bonner, Oby, 
dear, brave Old Slim, the General, Dick, Bloody, Holden, 

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(I found Holden out better this time than ever before, and 
he's all there, true and fine), Billy Kaufman, Variety, Paley, 
(and Paley is the man all over, strong, manly, sympathetic 
and ought to be a great leader), Spencer Weart, Eddie 
Lyon, Jimmy Woods, Colonel Denny, Billy Henderson, 
Macky, Jim Robinson, (the first picture we have had of 
Jim and one I prize greatly), Jack Taylor, Eddie Robinson 
(the man with the 'golden heart'), and all the rest, look- 
ing down on me with the recollection of our recent revival 
of close affection full upon me — I tell you, General, it is 
great and keeps the cockles of my heart warm, stimulates 
the tired brain and makes each day go by laden with the 
promises of pleasant tomorrows and at the end another 
meeting just as joyous as this! Happy is the man who, 
though he may be secluded from the faces and forms of 
those he loves, still may live at all times in their compan- 
ionship ! And I am one of them. When I face these faces, 
every one dear to me, I can realize the beauty and truth of 
the lines of Blair, 

'Friendship ! mysterious cement of the soul ! 
Sweetener of Life; and solder of society!' 

"We are getting along toward the end of the journey, 
and my prayer is that every day from this on some sweet 
impulse from the spirit of the Class of '76 shall inspire 
me to at least one action, for then the balance of my day will 
not be empty either of good deeds or of a very pervasive 
happiness! God send us at least one more reunion such 
as this we have just had. As for me I am going to seek 
out every year from this time on each of the class who 
may be idling about dear old Princeton at commencement 
time — for I am going to be there if in the flesh and not 
prevented by its infirmities. 

"Affectionately, 

L. G. Walker (Yap)." 
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REV. DE LACEY WARDLAW, A.B., A.M. 

"Miami, Florida, May 30, 192 1. 
"Dear Harrison : 

"I should have written you sooner, but letter writing is 
a lost art with me. I have enjoyed living, nothing to brag 
about and nothing to regret or that I would have different 
from what it was. At present I am living in an old man's 
paradise, a Florida grape-fruit and orange grove, a morn- 
ing's game of golf with a hoe, sea-bathing nearly every day 
of the year if I wish, fishing, good roads, a 'tin Lizzie' and 
the Everglades. My general feeling is that of the little 
boy who first saw the White Mountains, 'Hurrah for God/ 

"Last year we had four grandsons from Cuba with us 
for a year, now three granddaughters from Argentina, who 
will be with us for three short months. Financially I am 
near zero, but I do not see that the millionaires who flock 
here every winter have anything on me. I do not suppose 
that I will have many more years of life, but when the time 
comes, I shall have no kick, for I have had a lot of fun 
and interesting experiences in these 65 years and while all 
has not been what the mob would think desirable the dis- 
agreeable has gone to the discard and up to date I surely 
think life here on earth is worth living; if heaven is better, 
then heaven is a great invention. Yet who can doubt that 
He who made this world, a world of progressive happiness 
for those who will accept it, from the same goodness and 
wisdom has prepared something far better. Man, my 
Father made it all, and it is all mine. 

"Caroline Cunningham Wardlaw was married to John 
Jay Naugle, September 15, 1920. 

"Grandchildren: Elizabeth Randolph Adamson, daughter 
of James W. and Virginia Randolph Wardlaw Adamson in 
Buenos Ayres, Argentina, January 12, 191 7. 

"Wm. McKean Thomson, Jr., son of Wm. M. and Eloise 

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Wardlaw Thomson, born in Santiago, Cuba, June 17, 1916. 

"Addison Hogue Thomson, born at Sagua la Grande, 
Cuba, March 1, 1918. 

"I was not too proud, but Uncle Sam, darn him, said I 
was too old to fight. I did what I could to help things along 
and did things I would never have believed it possible that 
I could do. Nothing however spectacular or worthy of re- 
mark. So much of the war now seems a dream, and what 
I saw and things I was mixed up in seem as if they hap- 
pened to some one else. I was neither killed, nor did I 
kill anyone, although several times I thought one or the 
other would happen. Now it is all over, I have settled 
down in, to me, most enjoyable surroundings. I have 
everything all the time ■ that thousands come here every 
year to enjoy. Last summer was the coolest I ever spent, 
but the summer before was not. 

"What other people seek after does not appeal to me or 
seem worth while. I can not get interested. As an on- 
looker Puck expressed my opinion, 'What fools these 
mortals be.' I have been interested in three things. 1st. 
My missionary work, in which I threw my whole soul. 
When that was over, life was not romance, but drudgery. 
2nd. The education of my children. When my last left 
school, I was hardly enough interested in money, more than 
was required to pay rent and to eat. 3rd. I wanted to see 
Germany smashed. Now I am just enjoying life. Work 
(physical) and seeing things grow — pigs, chickens or chil- 
dren, vegetables, fruits and flowers is a joy to me. I have 
grape-fruit, oranges, chickens, flowers, avocadoes, etc. 
Some fruit is ripe all the time. Good roads, fine water, 
fresh and salt, a flivver and a wife. All that is necessary for 
me to enjoy life and have enough bother to prevent life 
becoming too monotonous. 

"My wife has things she likes: she is member of Pen- 

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women's Club, President of the Missionary Society, teacher 
of Women's Bible Class at the Presbyterian Church and 
generally sought after. I have connected myself with a 
young Presbyterian organization, as I prefer something that 
is struggling to an organization that can go it alone. Some- 
times I think I am too contented and then I am just con- 
tented to be contented. I hope you will have a fine time at 
the Reunion. I still am enjoying the last one. Tell any 
of the fellows that may come to this part of Florida, to be 
sure and let me know. 

"With kindest remembrances, 

"Yours truly, 

"De Lacey Wardlaw." 

SPENCER WEART, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

"August 15, 1 92 1. 
"My dear Harrison: 

"While reading in the newspaper that the thermometer 
had registered 90 more than twenty times this summer your 
welcome letter arrived urging a reply for the Class Record. 

"I looked over the printed questions and find that I can 
only answer the second, which refers to my address, there 
has been no change since the last record. 

"The last Reunion was very pleasant; when we arrange 
for the next one we must spend less time in the talks at the 
dinner; you as Secretary and Bonner as President should 
tell us generally about the Class and that would be about 
right, unless there are some there who have not been there 
at previous Reunions. Undoubtedly it would be appro- 
priate to hear from them if they desire to let us know what 
is on their minds. 

"The day following our dinner I was so tired that I twice 
stopped my automobile along the side of the road and had a 

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short sleep. I thought that was better than to run it while 
asleep. At the previous Reunions I have always gone home 
in the evenings, at this Reunion I stayed at the headquarters 
and shared my room with 'Slim/ Believe me, I will never 
forget that double-decked iron bed; after 'Slim' was fixed 
for the night in the lower berth, the upper one was there; 
it was there all right, about eight feet from the floor. There 
was no colored porter with a step-ladder. I tried climbing 
up the slender iron post on the south east corner of the 
structure and failed; there was an old-fashioned flat-top 
desk in front of an open window and on this I got a foot- 
hold and then lifted myself to the upper berth, and then the 
possibilities of falling out prompted me to grasp with one 
hand the iron-work and while in that secure position to 
try and woo some sleep. This move was successful and 
while dreaming whether, if I fell out, I would stay on the 
flat-top desk or roll from it through the open window and 
in the morning be found in the yard below, I was conscious 
there was some one moving around the room. When the 
electric light was turned on, there stood 'Hendy' in his 
sleeping uniform. He said he was in the next room, which 
had a double-decked bed and he had the lower berth. He 
said there was no door from his room to the hall and when 
he found that there was one in my room he went back to his 
own room ; when one has been forty-five years out of col- 
lege you take no chances about the things which can hap- 
pen before morning. When I turned the light on Hendy 
he did not look as if he was the critic who stirs up the 
composers, dead and living, and makes history for tenors, 
bassos, baritones, sopranos, contraltos, conductors, dancers, 
etc. 

"Being on the committee with Bonner and yourself and 
doing so little of the work I feel that it is perfectly proper, 
knowing how hard you both worked, to write to you that 

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the Reunion was a great success and Bonner and you are 
entitled to the thanks of the Class. Throughout the prepa- 
rations Bonner felt that the Class was keeping time and 
I think during the week he showed that all was going well. 

''The grouping of George Goldie's family in front of 
'George's' portrait made two pictures, one of George and 
the other his family, together representing four generations. 
When we are gone the great-grandchild who was there will 
tell his friends and family of our Reunion and keep our 
Class in this pleasant atmosphere which only reminiscence 
can create. 

"With best regards, I remain, 

"Yours very truly, 

"Spencer Weart." 

REV. IRVING ELISHA WHITE died October 28, 1918. 
The liberty is taken of introducing the following letter from 
Mrs. White, which gives several intimate details that will 
be of interest to the Class : 

"Greenwich, Conn. 
"My dear Mr. Harrison: 

"Thank you so much for your words of sympathy and 
your kind interest in dear Mr. White — it means so much 
to hear from those who knew him well and loved him. He 
was a good husband and father and we had a lovely little 
home in Cheshire but last March we had to break it up as 
Mr. White suffered a third stroke which left him practi- 
cally helpless. He had a fourth stroke while at the Ford- 
ham Home and passed away Oct. 28, at 10.45 m the morn- 
ing. He never complained about his affliction, only he 
couldn't understand why it had to be, but the faith that 
trusted where it couldn't trace is rewarded now in the 
Homeland. 

"The funeral had to be private as we had two influenza 

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patients here in the home. Mr. White looked very peace- 
ful and I cannot but be glad for him that he is with Jesus 
after all his suffering. When the Class Record came his 
mind was not able to take in more than the pictures. He 
did enjoy seeing the familiar faces. 

"Thanking you again for your kind letter, I am, 

"Very sincerely, 

"Elizabeth S. White." 

"Si" White was born at Ashland, N. Y., September 5, 
1849. From the Stamford, N. Y., Academy he came to 
Princeton in 1872. After graduation he taught for a year, 
then entered Union Theological Seminary and was gradu- 
ated in 1880. In June of that year he was ordained and in- 
stalled as pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Ho- 
bart, N. Y., where he remained until 1886, when he ac- 
cepted a call to the Second Presbyterian Church of Peeks- 
kill, N. Y. In 1896 his health compelled him to take a 
year's rest and after it he became pastor of the Presbyterian 
Church at Portchester, N. Y., his service continuing for 
thirteen years. While at this charge, his wife, to whom he 
had been married in 1882, died in April, 1903. Four years 
later he was married at Greenwich, Conn., to Miss Eliza- 
beth M. Selchow, daughter of a merchant in New York 
City, and to them were born two children, who with Mrs. 
White, now reside with the latter's mother in Greenwich, 
Conn. 

In 1910 "Si" was called to the First Congregational 
Church of Sharon, Conn., resigning in 1912 and moving to 
Cheshire, Conn., where he engaged in poultry raising. Two 
years later a slight stroke of paralysis restricted his labors 
in many directions, especially in preaching, but he lived on 
comfortably and happily for four years, until the end came, 
as indicated in Mrs. White's letter. 



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"Si" made many warm friends in his own as well as other 
classes in college, his kindly ways, cheery disposition, his 
frankness and transparent honesty winning their way 
with all. His great physical strength was counted upon in 
"rushes" with other classes, his truly Christian spirit could 
be relied upon in all moral matters. Ten years ago he was 
at the Reunion and greatly enjoyed meeting old friends, 
many of whom he had not seen since 1876. Five years ago 
he longed to visit Princeton again, but the condition of his 
health would not permit. That his many fine qualities won 
him friends in his ministry is shown by these quotations 
from newspapers after his death: "He was extremely 
well known and well liked in Portchester." "His strength 
of character, uprightness, fearlessness, and manliness, 
coupled with a bright, cheery disposition and considerable 
gifts of oratory, brought him the respect of all who knew 
him and the affection of those more intimately associated 
with him." H. L. H. 

HON. WILLIAM H. WHITTLESEY, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 
No report. 

REV. PROF. ROBERT DICK WILSON, A.B., A.M., 
Ph.D., D.D., LL.D. 

Bob's letter for the last Record, inadvertently misdirected, 
was returned to the writer, who included it in his report 
for this year, and it is reproduced here because of the in- 
teresting information it contains. 

"Bonnie View, 

"Saltsburg, Pa., Sept. 19, 1917. 
"My dear General : 

"If possible, pardon my negligence. Writing letters is 
my burden and not writing my besetting sin. Since 1906 

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I have continued my labors in the Chair of Semitic Lan- 
guages and Old Testament Criticism in the Seminary at 
Princeton. The only changes in my work have been that 
I am now devoting more time to what may be called for- 
eign missionary work; and that, through an arrangement 
with the University, my department will from now on teach 
three or four courses of three hours each in their Semitic 
department. My missionary lectures are in Arabic, espe- 
cially on the Koran, and on the history of Muhammed 
and Islam. 

"I have published since 1906 three books for beginners 
in Hebrew, and there should appear about Oct. 1, a book 
entitled 'Studies on the Book of Daniel,' a defence of the 
historicity of the man and of his book. Also, I have writ- 
ten a goodly number of articles on subjects connected with 
the Old Testament, the most important of which are one 
on 'The Aramaic of Daniel' in the Centennial Volume of 
Princeton Seminary and another on 'The Titles of the 
Kings of Russia' in the Sachau Festschrift, Berlin, 19 15. 

"As to duties outside the Seminary, I have become since 
191 5 a regular lecturer at the School for Christian Workers 
at Philadelphia, and I am advertised as a professor in the 
School for Deaconesses in Baltimore. I have lectured, also, 
for seven summers at the Grove City summer school, and 
for one summer each at Winona, Pocono Pines, Stony 
Brook, and Detroit, beside special lectures at Pittsburgh, 
Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Washington, on such sub- 
jects as 'Daniel,' 'Is Abraham a Myth?' 'The standing 
still of the sun an eclipse,' and 'The philological premises 
of the radical critics.' 

In 1908, I attended the congress of orientalists at Copen- 
hagen and read a paper on 'The Ten Dialects of the 
Aramaic' 

"I have had better health during the last decade than 

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ever in my life before, and never was in as good condition 
as this summer. 

"I was greatly distressed by the death of my only son, 
Philip Howard Wilson, A.B., Princeton 'n, on the 29th 
of June, 1913, of tuberculosis contracted while attending a 
university in Germany. The translations from the classical 
authors in my book on Daniel were made by him. 

"Wishing you success in your arduous task and thanking 
you for the great labor you are doing for the Class, I am, 
"Your classmate and friend, 

"R. D. Wilson." 

"Princeton, N. J., June 10, 1921. 
"Dear General: 

"Since the writing of the above letter I have continued 
my duties here as usual. My 'Studies in the Book of Daniel' 
was published by Putnam's Sons in the fall of 1916. I 
have published also two articles on the book of Jonah, two 
on 'Scientific Criticism of the Old Testament' and a series 
on the Names and Designations of God in the Old Testa- 
ment, the Koran, and the Apocryphal and Pseudepigraphical 
Literature of the Jews; and one on New Testament Names, 
etc., will appear on July 1. 

"Another book entitled 'A Vindication of Old Testament 
History' will appear shortly, to be published by The Sun- 
day School Times Publishing Co. 

"I am in good health for a man of my age and still able 
to do my class-room work and to write and lecture a good 
deal besides. A second volume on Daniel is ready for the 
press and a third and final volume nearly ready; as, also, 
a volume on the Canon of the Old Testament. 

"I see Sam's name leads the honor roll in Old Nassau 
Hall of those that died in the service. I wish I could have 
been able (financially) to give a scholarship in his honor, 

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as so many others have done. His son, Robert, Jr., is going 
to enter the Freshman class next September. He is a 
bright and handsome boy. Sam, as you know, died on July 
3, 1916, and is buried in Tabriz, Persia, beside three of his 
children. His book on 'Bahaism and its Claims' was pub- 
lished in 19 1 5 and the one on 'Modern Movements among 
Moslems' in 1916. 

"Hoping to see you soon, 

"Your classmate, 

"R. D. Wilson." 
"P.S. — Perhaps it would please you to know that I received 
a LL.D. from Wooster University in 19 19. The late 
Governor Cox of Ohio was the big native present, and 
a degree was conferred on Senator Pomerene, Prince- 
ton '84, also.— R.D.W." 

Although the Theological Seminary closes early in May 
and the Wilsons usually go to their summer home soon 
after, this year they remained in Princeton until after the 
Reunion, and Monday afternoon, June 20, after the pre- 
sentation of the George Goldie portrait, Prof, and Mrs. 
Wilson gave a very delightful reception to the members of 
the Class and their wives and children. The Rev. John 
DeWitt, D.D., LL.D., '61 and Mrs. DeWitt assisted in 
receiving. 

HON. JOSEPH M. WOODS, A.B., A.M., LL.B. 

"Jimmie" reports the marriage of two of his children: 
Sarah E. Woods to Charles E. Dahl, in June, 1919; and 
Marianne W. Woods to J. Frank Bell, Jr., in October, 19 19. 

Grandchildren: Margaret S. Woods, daughter of William 
J. Woods, born in April, 1917 ; Louise P. Kent, daughter of 
Margaretta W. Kent, July, 1918; Carl L. Dahl, son of 
Sarah W. Dahl, August, 1920. 

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There has been one death, that of Jimmie's wife, Sarah 
E. Woods, November 17, 19 19. It will be remembered that 
she was a sister of M. N. Johnson. Our deepest sympathy 
goes out to Jimmie and his family in the great loss they 
have sustained. 

In the war Jimmie was chairman of the local question- 
naire board and on the four-minute speakers' committee. 
One son, James S. Woods was, and is, a Commander in the 
Navy ; Joseph M., Jr., was a Second Lieutenant ; two daugh- 
ters, Marianne and Sarah, were engaged in Red Cross work. 

REV. WILLIAM H. WOOLVERTON, A.B., A.M., D.D. 

"Stockton, N. J., July 25, 192 1. 
"Dear General: 

"You are so much to us and such a genial wizard withal 
that we cannot withstand you. And when you tell us to do 
a thing we simply have to do it. You ask me to write you 
a letter about myself, but what is there to write ? The com- 
mon task is not a thing to descant upon or preen over and 
philosophize about, but to be done. 'The best men say 
nothing, but saw wood.' Though there is a profound phi- 
losophy in it, if we get down to it, and a deep satisfaction too. 
There's no fun like work. To many a man a pitchfork and 
garden hoe is a better minister of refreshment than a golf 
stick or tennis racquet. I sometimes feel if a deal of the 
surplus energy that is expended on golf links and tennis 
courts were harnessed up and utilized in harvest fields and 
truck patches and wood piles, the country would be better 
off, and some men too. Play has its place, but men are not 
mere playdogs. 

" 'Twas good to be at that Service Commencement Sun- 
day night. It was a real flow of soul, and warmed the 
cockles of our hearts. And we appreciated the bountiful 
provision generous hands had made for it. The spirit of 

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'76 is still alive, and some of us are better because of it, — 
a spirit of fellowship, comradeship, partnership. While 
some of us have never been able to do any great things, we 
are members one of another, and 'Blest be the tie that 
binds.' We may not all be Presidents like Paley, or 
Bishops like Denny, or fine classical scholars like Pat, or 
lawyers, doctors, editors, professors, heroes, missionaries 
like Jimmie and Jack and Dick and Starr and Yap and 
Slim and Bob and Sam and Lowrie, Fulton, Chambers and 
others, but we can be ourselves and hoe our row and do 
our work, and at the same time shine with something of the 
reflected glory of the more radiant ones. An army is not 
all Generals (the loikes o' ye). The buck privates are also 
on the roster and have to come in. I was impressed anew 
in our meeting together that the spirit of '76 is a spirit of 
service, — Holden brought that out, — the spirit of Him who 
came not to be ministered unto, but to minister. That is 
its crowning glory. Moreover the real Simon-pure spirit 
of 'j6, as some of us have been reluctantly glad to learn, is 
not a spirit of INdependence, but of DEPENDENCE, DE- 
PENDENCE, DEPENDENCE upon the ONE who did not 
fail our fathers, and who will not fail us, but will be to us 
all we are willing to let Him be. That is my main psycho- 
logical reaction after forty-five years of anything but my 
own sapient planning, and where I have most surely found 
'the force of GAR and also KAI DE KAL' 

"God bless you, General, in all that you have done and 
are doing. We cannot forget your work and labor of love 
for us all in the way you have ministered to the Class, and 
still do minister. My regards and best wishes to you and 
yours. 

"Most gratefully and cordially, 

"Wm. H. Woolverton." 



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"Billy" reports that he is preaching all the time. He is 
the chairman of the New Era Committee of the Presbytery 
of New Brunswick, N. J. 

His daughter Dorothy was married June 17, 1920, to 
James Douglas Allen. To them a daughter, Dorothy Allen, 
was born June 2, 192 1, and died the same day. Mrs. Allen's 
serious illness prevented Billy's remaining at Princeton 
longer during Reunion. Mrs. Allen served as an Army 
nurse during the war. 

"Billy" adds: "You ought to know what a most useful 
man Beach is in Princeton and the Presbytery. He reflects 
honor on the Class." 



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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

HOWARD RUSSELL BUTLER, B.S., LL.B., N.A. 

"Princeton, N. J., January 15, 1921. 
"My dear General : 

"Since the last report the events in my professional work 
which have most interested me, were the painting of 
musketry instruction pictures — of loan-drive pictures — of 
the Solar Eclipse of June 8, 1918 — of the Northern lights of 
Aug. 12, 1919, and the Yellowstone Park in the summer 
of 1920. 

"Since the Boer War the rudiments of musketry war- 
fare, including practice itself, have been taught in the Eng- 
lish army in front of painted landscapes instead of in the 
field. The pictures are large and are placed from 50 to 100 
feet from the squad. They illustrate the most important 
situations likely to arise. The commander directs the firing 
in the following manner: he begins by calling out the 
name of some distant object in the landscape which is 
prominent enough for all to see — red barn, water tower, or 
other object. This is henceforth known as the 'designation 
center.' Direction from this object is indicated by the 
'clock method.' Thus, assuming the 'designation center' to 
be the center of a clock a rock might be in the direction of 
the figure ten on the dial. Angular distances are measured 
by 'Hands.' Suppose the arm to be held out straight in 
the direction of the horizon and the hand turned up, palm 
outward ; the hand will then subtend an angle of about ten 
degrees. So an order might be as follows : — 'White house, 

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seven hundred, three o'clock, two hands, Bush, five rounds, 
Fire/ 

"The seven hundred means the distance in yards that the 
object to be fired at would be in nature and the sights are 
immediately adjusted for that range. In giving orders in 
front of the pictures the officer takes care to use sight ele- 
vations which will carry the balls above the picture and into 
a white muslin strip. Here the shooting is recorded. 

"While our War Department never officially adopted this 
aid to instruction, many officers called for 'target pictures' 
and our committee painted about three-quarters of a mile of 
them. Mine aggregated about one hundred and fifty feet. 
One, in three sections, was thirty-nine feet long and was 
afterwards presented to the government. 

"My three loan-drive pictures — 'Crime by moonlight,' — 
a night attack by German submarine, 'Stranding of the 
Northern Pacific on Fire Island Beach,' showing the 
rescuing of the soldiers through the surf, and 'Eagle and 
Shark/ a periscope protruding from the waves with a sea- 
plane soaring above it, were exhibited in the windows of 
Fifth Avenue at the times of the loan-drives. The gov- 
ernment called for these pictures but all work of this kind 
was contributed free by the artists as their 'bit.' 

"The most interesting professional work of my life was 
the painting of the Solar-Eclipse of June 8, 1918. I was 
asked to accompany the U. S. Naval Observatory party to 
Baker, Oregon, where the eclipse was central. It lasted only 
112 seconds and during that time darkness prevailed. I 
used a short-hand method — recording the shapes, colors, 
tonality of the picture and degrees of luminosity by num- 
bers, letters and lines. I had many drills — an officer of the 
navy calling the 112 seconds at each while I turned out an 
imaginary picture. On the occasion itself the magnificent 
spectacle was seen through a very thin, filmy cloud, which 

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enhanced the beauty of the effect. The picture, when com- 
pleted, was purchased by Edward D. Adams, Esq., and 
presented to the Museum of Natural History, where it has 
been very satisfactorily installed in a large dark room, with 
artificial illumination, giving the effect of a window through 
which the eclipse is seen. 

"In the last two years I have worked hard for 'the League 
of Nations.' I wrote the 'Synopsis of the Covenant of the 
League of Nations' and 'The Covenant Gutted.' The latter 
an analysis of the reservations — which were published by 
The American Rights League and widely distributed. 

"I feel that the selfish, reactionary stand taken by America 
after the war, and brought about mainly through political 
greed, destroyed the great opportunity of healing the 
wounds of the World War. A few simple reservations and 
a quick entrance into the League and America could have 
set an example and led the way to a rational settlement. 
But we are not at heart generous. Our God, I fear, is 
still the Almighty Dollar. 

"The only death to report is that of my mother, Mrs. 
William Allen Butler, who died February 15, 1920. She 
was known as the 'Princeton College Grandmother.' She 
had five sons, thirteen grandsons and four sons- or grand- 
sons-in-law at Princeton, a total of twenty-two. 

"Sincerely yours, 

"Howard Russell Butler." 

WILLIAM BERRY McKOY, B.S., LL.B. 

With great regret we learn from the following letter from 
Mrs. McKoy that our classmate's health for the greater 
part of a year has been such as to compel him to give up 
the practice of his profession. In this trial we extend to 
him our heartfelt sympathy and hope his restoration to 
vigor may be speedy. 

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"Wilmington, N. C, Aug. 16, 192 1. 
"Mr. Harrison, 

"Dear Sir: Please pardon the delay in answering these 
questions, but Mr. McKoy has not been well enough, I 
regret to say, to attend to it. Our son James was in New 
York in July for a few days and his father wanted him to 
call upon you, but his time was short and he was a long 
distance from your office, so failed to see you. He went 
to attend the International Convention of the Christian En- 
deavorers. 

"My husband has not been well since last October and 
he has been unable to attend to business or write letters. 
He enjoys walking and being read to, but this temporary 
suspension from active life is very trying to him. He sends 
his love to you. 

"Very truly, 

"K. B. McKoy." 

In the war Henry Bacon McKoy became a Second Lieu- 
tenant in the Engineer Corps, and Francis Kelton McKoy 
a Second Lieutenant in Aviation. 

William Ancrum McKoy was married August 7, 19 16. 

William Ancrum, Jr., was born April 28, 19 17. 

WILLIAM PAXTON STEVENSON, B.S. 

"Roselle, N. J., June 1, 192 1. 
"Dear Harrison: 

"Thank you much. I expect to be settled at Lake George 
for the season before the middle of June. 

"With all best wishes and regrets that I cannot attend. 

"Yours truly, 

"W. P. Stevenson." 
Will's report is very brief. He is Treasurer of Synodical 
Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church. 

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NON-GRADUATE MEMBERS 

ACADEMIC 

JOHN CONGER came to Princeton in 1872 from New- 
Orleans, La., where his two sisters still reside, and took 
the freshman and sophomore years with the Class of '76. 
He will be well remembered by all "original freshmen'' for 
his gentlemanly deportment and courteous manner. His 
closer intimacies were with the East College group, while 
many of his friends were in other classes on account of fra- 
ternity affiliations. On leaving college he went to New 
York City and engaged in business on the Produce Ex- 
change and later as an insurance and mining broker. He 
met with varying success, but was always optimistic and 
was sure the next venture would produce large results. His 
hearing early became impaired and this was a serious draw- 
back in all his business intercourse. Appreciating this 
handicap, many of his college acquaintances aided him as 
much as they were able. 

In March, 1920, John became ill and was taken to a 
hospital. Peritonitis developed and an operation was per- 
formed but did not afford relief and he died March 22. 
The interment was at Kensico Cemetery on March 26. 

To those who knew John best, his reserve and apparently 
haughty manner cloaked an exceedingly sensitive and nat- 
urally generous disposition, his cynicism was superficial, 
his trust in the honor of others was implicit. They sym- 
pathized with him in his hopes and keenly feel his loss. 

H. L. H. 

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EDWARD STILES ELY, A.B., Yale '76 

His permanent address is Lyme, Conn., where he en- 
gages in agriculture and forestry on his farms, and the 
winters are spent in the South or California. His son 
Ernest enlisted in the Navy in February, 1918, and was 
released the following November, having attained the rank 
of Quartermaster Second. 

Grandchildren : Richard Duncan Ely, born November 26, 
1916, the ninth in descent; Harry Chase Ely, born Febru- 
ary 12, 1920, the sons of Richard Duncan and Mildred 
Chase Ely. 

Under date of April 7, 1919, Ely writes from Santa 
Barbara, Cal., acknowledging the receipt of a class letter 
and saying: "I particularly remember Frank Dunning, my 
seat mate in the old chapel; also Van Lennep, who distin- 
guished himself in our Freshman cane-rush, a fine big up- 
standing fellow, whose parents were friends of my father 
and mother. 

"Mrs. Ely, our son Ernest and daughter Mrs. Bunnell 
came to the coast, seeking a home in a sort of cooperative 
community at Atacascadero, back of the ocean about fif- 
teen miles and half way between Los Angeles and San 
Francisco. We found the management were building one 
bungalow a day and as there were 800 applicants for bunga- 
lows ahead of us (though the management had carefully 
concealed this in their correspondence), we decided not to 
wait 801 days, and came to Santa Barbara, then on to Los 
Angeles, and now back again in Santa Barbara. We had 
previously visited in 191 5 San Francisco and San Diego, 
but Santa Barbara is easily the gem of them all." 

On January 15, 1921, he writes: "We are planning to go 
again to California and may not return till the spring of 
1922, but please remember me to any of the class that may 
ask after me. 

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"Besides you, the only other Princetonian with whom I 
keep in touch is my brother-in-law, Prof. E. C. Richard- 
son, Librarian ; he is at present on a vacation, attending the 
recent League Conference (as a visitor) in Geneva, and 
may remain abroad till next fall. 

"He spoke of having had the pleasure of meeting you 
a while ago. 

"With best wishes, 

"Yours faithfully, 

"E. Stiles Ely." 

"June 7, 192 1. 
"Dear Harrison : 

"I regret that I can not attend the 45th Reunion. But my 
best wishes to my old classmates. My year at Princeton is 
one of the bright spots in my life. For the Record, since 
last report have been engaged in agriculture and forestry 
on my farms at Lyme, Conn., during winters spending my 
time in New York, California and South Carolina. Thank- 
ing you again for the invitation, I am, 

"Very truly yours, 

"E. Stiles Ely." 

CECIL C. FULTON 

He reports the marriage of Cecil C, Jr., to Louisa Cole 
on October 17, 191 7, and the birth of Anne Elizabeth Ful- 
ton on January 27, 1919. C. C. came to the Reunion as 
usual, looks just as he did five years ago and enjoyed the 
meeting hugely. 

WILLIAM W. GREEN, A.B., Yale '78, LL.B. No report. 



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EDWARD PACKARD HOLDEN 

"Aug. 31, 1921. 
"Dear Harrison: 

"Since the last report, there has been little change in my 
affairs. I am now retired from active business, but en- 
deavor not to stagnate and find some profitable use for 
my time. 

"I am thankful to say that our family circle is still un- 
broken. On the contrary it has been quite enlarged since 
the last report. My daughter, Eleanor Sanford, was mar- 
ried September 25, 19 18, to Ralph G. Stoddard. They have 
given us our only granddaughter, Eleanor Holden Stoddard, 
born January 16, 1921. 

"Four grandsons have joined our ranks : Edward Hol- 
den Morgan, September 28, 1916; Henry Green Morgan, 
March 20, 1919; Edward Packard Holden, 3rd, July 29, 
1918; Kenneth Dorman, April 16, 1919. 

"My age naturally precluded active participation in war 
service, but I was able to render some assistance in the 
way of public speaking, Loan and Red Cross Work, which 
justified a certificate of honorable discharge from the ser- 
vice of the United States. 

"My son-in-law, Rev. Minot C. Morgan, was chaplain at 
Camp Merritt, N. J., and another, Roderick A. Dorman, 
was at Great Lakes Training Camp, enlisting for Naval 
service. 

"I had looked forward with great anticipaion to the Re- 
union, and I was not disappointed. I shall never forget the 
fine, affectionate spirit shown by all present, and the spirit- 
ual tone which I believe we all felt. Surely no class has, 
nor can have, a finer Reunion than our organization. As 
the years pass, I find myself more strongly bound to all the 
members of the Class, and count it a privilege to be asso- 
ciated with them. "Always affectionately, 

"Edward P. Holden." 

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REV. WASHINGTON R. LAIRD, Ph.D. 

"West Chester, Pa., July 21, 192 1. 
"Dear Classmate: 

"I am, as you know, now pastor emeritus, as I resigned 
on account of broken health more than three years ago. The 
church here not only made me pastor emeritus, but pa^s 
me a salary which with my other income enables us to 
live in very modest comfort. 

"One son, Robert B. Laird, enlisted as a private in the 
World War. He was discharged for ill health before go- 
ing over. 

"One son, Rev. Harold Samuel Laird, a graduate of La- 
fayette College and Princeton Seminary, is pastor of the J. 
Addison Henry Memorial Presbyterian Church of Phila- 
delphia. He has a son, Robert Wallace Laird, my only 
grandchild, born two years ago last March. 

"Very sincerely, 

"Washington R. Laird." 

JOHN G. LYON 

"Pittsburgh, Pa., August 10, 192 1. 
"My dear General: 

"There is so little for me to report that it hardly seems 
worth while to send anything for the Record. 

"I have not been honored with any titles or degrees. My 
business address is Commonwealth Building, Pittsburgh, 
and my home address is Hotel Kenmawr. I am still en- 
gaged in the investment banking business, which just now 
is, in common with most other businesses, shot to pieces. 

"Since my last report, my son, Lowell Thayer Lyon was 
married in October, 1917. I have four granddaughters: 
Hester Murtland Lyon, born April 16, 1916; Sarah Lyon, 
born October 31, 1919, daughters of my son, Prescott L. 
Lyon. Johnetta and Adalina Lyon, twins, born July 21, 

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191 8, daughters of my son, James B. Lyon. There have 
been no deaths in the family. 

"My son, Prescott L. Lyon, was a second lieutenant in 
the Army during the War but has not seen service abroad. 
My son, L. Thayer Lyon, was lieutenant, junior grade, in 
the Navy and at sea for about two years. 

"I am very sorry not to have attended the Reunion in 
June, but circumstances absolutely prevented my going. 

"With kindest regards, I am 

"Very sincerely yours, 

"John G. Lyon." 

JOHN GALBRAITH MACKY 

John reports that his history for the past five years has 
been uneventful, he simply has nothing to say that is worth 
printing. He is living in Philadelphia and engaged in busi- 
ness in Camden, N. J. 

His daughter Lucy Walker was married January 19, 1918, 
in the chapel of the United States Naval Academy at An- 
napolis, to Lieut, M. Bayard Butler, Jr., and they have one 
son, John Bayard Butler, born February 28, 1919. ("Some 
boy," John adds.) 

JOHN MILLS, LL.B. No report. 

HENRY DUNCAN OLIPHANT was born at Uniontown, 
Fayette County, Pa., June 6, 1855, the fourth son of Gen. 
S. Duncan Oliphant. In 1867 the family moved to Prince- 
ton, N. J., where Henry received his preparation for college 
at the John Schenck School, and joined the Class of *j6 in 
the fall of 1872. Here he made many friends, whose warmth 
of affection remained all through his life. Henry was a 
fine gymnast and one of the best on the parallel and hori- 
zontal bars. 

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In the spring of 1875 he left college to take a position as 
Clerk in the United States Circuit Court, holding it until 
October, 1880, when he was appointed Deputy Clerk, an 
office which he filled until he was promoted to the Clerkship 
of the Court on the death of his father in October, 1904, 
who had served in that position for thirty-four years. 
Henry took the oath of office November 1, 1904, and was 
clerk until the circuit courts were abolished by act of Con- 
gress in 1912. In 1897 he was appointed a standing ex- 
aminer of the court, and he was in close contact with the 
greatest lawyers of the country, acting as referee in a num- 
ber of very important litigations, among them those involv- 
ing the United States Ship Building Company. 

Mr. Oliphant's chief activity outside of his work was in 
connection with the First Presbyterian Church, of which 
he was an elder for many years, a place that he held at the 
time of his death, with the distinction of being the oldest of 
the elders in point of service. He had much to do with 
establishing the East Trenton Sunday School, and was 
superintendent of it until his health began to fail and he was 
confined to his home. 

Mr. Oliphant was not much of a lodgeman, his only fra- 
ternal order affiliation having been as a member of Column 
Lodge of Masons. 

In 1886 Henry was married to Elizabeth Vandeveer Day- 
ton, of Matawan, N. J. Three children were born to them, 
Duncan and A. Dayton Oliphant, twins, and Elizabeth Van- 
deveer Oliphant. Duncan is connected with the New Jer- 
sey Manufacturers' Casualty Company as auditor, and A. 
Dayton is a counsellor-at-law, practicing in Trenton, has 
been a member of the State Assembly for three years and 
was appointed by the Governor as Prosecutor of Mercer 
County. Duncan was married June 23, 1917, to Grace B. 
Howard of Pitman, N. J. 

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Henry Oliphant's health began to decline in the latter 
part of 1916, confining him more and more closely to his 
home, and the end came January 11, 1918. The Trenton 
Times spoke of him as "one of the best known of the older 
generation of Trenton men, having lived practically all of 
his life in this city. He is survived by his wife and three 
children." He was one of ten brothers, five of whom are 
still living, Hughes, of the class of '70, having died recently. 

H. L. H. 

WILLIAM PEARSON, LL.B. No report. 

MARTIN RALPH 

"Jamaica, N. Y., Aug. 25, 192 1. 
"My dear Harrison: 

"Your kindly and courteous persistency is worthy of a 
better reward than I am able to confer. I don't know where 
to begin or where to quit. The address I give is my son's 
home, which we moved into about two weeks ago. Most 
unexpectedly, on June 8, 1921, my son Henry lost his wife, 
when we were all looking for her recovery after giving birth 
to a daughter on May 9. With a girl of three years and a 
babe of four weeks, the most available person to take 
charge was Henry's mother and we are installed where 
Henry had planned to live with own immediate family. 

"As to personal health and activities, I consider myself 
quite a well man for one who has entered his seventy-first 
year and am still able to attend to clerical work in a local 
tire and accessories store. I have no idea when I may be 
called to 'go the way of all the earth/ but I hope to quit 
the game in uniform, or shall I say in armor, even if faint 
'yet pursuing.' What a school life is. How fortunate the 
man who has found out who is Master, and who endeavors 

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to shape things, so far as he is concerned, to the eternal 
principles which will finally govern this earth and do rule 
in the world to come. 

"I have become a grandfather in the third degree, my 
son Edward, the dentist, having a son Edward Roger, born 
May 17, 1921. 

"Three of my sons were in the late war, John, the old- 
est, located in Washington, Henry, who went to France 
with the Machine Gun Division and was wounded, and 
Edward D., who practiced his profession of dentistry in the 
Navy at the Naval Base at Bensonhurst, L. I. 

"Truly yours, in the long since severed bonds of '76 and 
still on the job, 

"Martin Ralph." 

JOHN P. ROBERTS 

In 19 19 Roberts wrote that he had had his photograph 
taken for the Record, and discovering that he was too late 
to have it reproduced in the book, had not sent it. He also 
had the impression that a Record would not be printed dur- 
ing the continuance of the war. Having learned of the 
death of Van Lennep, he remarks the latter "was the first 
one, perhaps the only one, that I ever heard talking mod- 
ern Greek, as I might be boasting of my Welsh. ... I 
have enjoyed tolerably good health in late years and have 
had as much to do as I can well take care of. I send my 
best regards to all the boys." 

"Cambria, Wis., April 7, 1920. 
"Dear H. L. H. : 

"Received your invitation to the Seventies and Before 
for the dinner of April 30 and in reply am as ever sorry to 
acknowledge unpreparedness to attend, not as to time but 
as to the wherewithal, but all the same, in spirit if you 

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still believe in such things unhampered by the new light put 
on it by Sir Olievr Lodge et al., I will surely be there 
watching you enjoying what I can't partake of myself. 
Give my regards to all the boys of '76 and 'jj. 

"Yours truly, 

"John P. Roberts." 

"Cambria, Wis., Aug. 15, 1921. 
"Dear Secretary Harrison: 

"Very few of the questions you submit can be answered, 
as my unfortunate old-bachelorhood condition excludes all 
answers to Nos. 4, 5 and 6, with no additional facts for 
No. 7. 

"My birthday, May 9, 1921, is my seventy-first anni- 
versary. And now, in regard to No. 3, nothing new or 
very different from previous attempts to report can be add- 
ed, I having remained for the last decade within the 'city 
limits' of the village of Cambria, doing what work was of- 
fered suitable to present ability. Since my accident in 1910, 
very little of my old work outside of the village has been 
done because travelling has become irksome. I have, as 
a hobby, occasionally done some literary work. My health 
is tolerable, my sight very much the same; being short- 
sighted when young I am still using glasses for distance, 
but for the last forty years I have not used them at all for 
close work, reading or writing; my hearing is gradually 
failing, hence I am inclined to too much seclusion. 

"With a silent tribute to those of the Class who have de- 
parted, may I send my sincere good wishes and best re- 
gards to the remaining living members of the Class, and 
express, as ever, a longing to remain 

"Sincerely yours, 

"John P. Roberts." 



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JAMES A. ROBINSON 

"Pittsburgh, Pa., May 28, 1921. 
"My dear 'General' : 

"I am writing to you in obedience to orders of the 'Big 
Boss,' although I have very little to say, as you know I 
lead the simple life. 

"The only unusual event in my history since last report 
was the marriage of my daughter Letitia to Henry Clay 
Gibson, of Philadelphia, on April 19, 192 1. 

"Have never begged, borrowed or stolen any title or 
degrees, etc. 

"Faithfully yours, 

"James A. Robinson." 

JOSEPH M. ROSEBERRY, A.B., 'yj, A.M., LL.B. No 
report. 

THOMAS RANDOLPH SHEETS, son of William S. 
Sheets, who served three terms as Secretary of the State 
of Indiana, was born at Indianapolis, March 5, 1855, m what 
was then known as the Sheets Block and is now the site of 
the present Denison Hotel, at the corner of Ohio and Penn- 
sylvania Streets, and died September 21, 1920, at the Pres- 
byterian Hospital, in Chicago, Illinois. He prepared for 
Princeton at Lawrenceville and entered the Class of '76, 
being, however, compelled to leave at the end of Freshman 
year to give attention to pressing family business affairs. 
About thirty years ago he left Indiana and went to Chi- 
cago, where for twenty years or more he held a responsible 
position with the Gas, Coke and Coal Company of Chicago, 
on whose retired list he had been about two years at the 
time of his death. His only near surviving relative is a 
sister, Miss Catherine Randolph Sheets, now and for many 
years a resident of Washington, D. C. 

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While awaiting the preparation of a newly acquired home 
to which he was about to move, he occupied a house on the 
Lake Shore near Chicago, and on Saturday, September 18, 
1920, was entertaining a week-end house party, of which 
he was the life. In the midst of a merry evening, by a 
strange impulse he was led to speak of his life, which he 
did at length, stating that its entire course and events 
seemed to crowd in upon him, and these he described and 
related fully and with keenest interest, engaging the close 
and undivided attention of his guests for quite a length of 
time, toward the end of which, as though in a vision, he 
spoke of a long journey that he saw before him, and hardly 
had he thus expressed himself when he wavered and finally 
collapsed, as the result of what proved to be a stroke of 
apoplexy. Without reviving he was hurried to the hospital, 
where he lingered until the following Tuesday, September 
21, when, without having in the meanwhile regained con- 
sciousness sufficiently to speak, he died. In the interim he 
at times seemed almost if not quite conscious of those about 
him, but he was never sufficiently so to utter a word. 

His funeral services were held at Flanner and Buchan- 
an's Chapel, in Chicago, on September 23, 1920, and he was 
interred at Crown Hill Cemetery. H. E. D. 

OSCAR ADAM SLOAN 

"Monticello, Fla., August 16, 1921. 
"Dear Brother Classmate: 

"Procrastination, like a fairy tempter, lingers ever near 
and whispers in faltering tones, wait until tomorrow. I 
am truly guilty and come at this late hour beseeching 
pardon. 

"No special titles since last report, only I have been ap- 
pointed to fill the important, but not pleasant, position of 
Tax Equalizer. 

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"No special matters have transpired since my last report. 
My wife and self enjoying perfect health. No medicine or 
doctors needed in my large family. We are getting along 
fairly well considering the depression that prevails all over 
the country. Now that the G. O. P. has been restored to 
power in the nation I hope under its beneficent sway that it 
will place the country in its proper high position. 

"Only one addition to my family, a grandson, Thomas 
Montgomery Cox, born November 16, 1919, living in Oko- 
lona, Miss. 

"Providence has been merciful. No death as yet has 
visited my family. 

"I am sorry that age barred me from being drafted or 
enlisting in the world scrap. The only service rendered 
was in contribution to the various worthy causes. It is 
with deep regret that I am forced by distance and circum- 
stances which are beyond my control, to inform you that 
it is now clear that I cannot be with you all in our Reunion. 
To say that I am disappointed is putting it very mildly. I 
am still looking to visit Princeton during life. I am far 
from being indifferent to the Class of '76. My association 
with all of you was a pleasure and a blessing that time 
continually reveals. With love to you all and the warmest 
wishes for the success of the Reunion, 

"Yours in the bonds of '76, 

"Oscar Adam Sloan." 

WILLIAM McBATH SMITH 

"St. Louis, Mo., July 2, 1921. 
"My dear General: 

"My history is the same as in the last report. My daugh- 
ter, Ethel P. Smith, married John F. Cannon, Jr., Oct. 17, 
1918. Mr. Cannon was the only son of Rev. John F. Can- 

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non, D.D., pastor of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, 
St. Louis, for 32 years. Dr. Cannon was killed in an auto- 
mobile accident April 10, 1920. 

"Mary Frances Cannon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. 
Cannon, Jr., was born Dec. 26, 1919. 

"Oliver C. Smith died of the influenza Oct. 10, 1918. 
My dear boy had a presentiment in August 1918, while he 
was on his vacation with his family at Grand Haven, Mich., 
that he was going to die in the fall. Told his wife of his 
presentiment, but she thought he was joking, for he was in 
splendid health. It was stated by every one that knew any- 
thing about him that he died for his country, for he was 
Captain of one of the teams for raising money for Red 
Cross work, took cold, did not take proper care of himself, 
but kept right on at work with his team, and finally had to 
go to bed. His cold went into pneumonia in both lungs, 
and he was gone in less than a week. He leaves a wife and 
two children, Millard Watts Smith and Martha Corbin 
Smith and $30,000 life insurance to his wife and children. 

"Sincerely yours, 

"W. McB. Smith." 

Oliver Smith, who died at the age of thirty-three, must 
have been an unusually gifted young man. The Church 
News said of him: "He was a born leader. He was a 
worker who always 'carried on.' He never lagged and he 
never shirked. He had a winning smile that indexed an in- 
ner sweetness. He had a wide vision of the field of Chris- 
tian service." 

"Macbeth" attended the meetings of the National Alumni 
Association of Princeton University at St. Louis, February 
22, 1 92 1. He could not come to' the Reunion because it 
falls in the busiest part of the year for him, but he hopes 
to arrange to be at the next. 

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JORDAN STOKES, LL.B. 

"Nashville, Tenn., July 2, 192 1. 
"My dear Friend: 

"I owe you an apology for not responding more promptly 
to your various communications. There has been little 
change in my life since last report. During the interim, 
however, I have been blessed beyond my deserts. Death 
has not taken away any of my loved ones and we are all 
enjoying good health. All of my grandchildren are in 
school. The oldest is a sophomore in Vanderbilt University. 
As the years go by, I often go back in memory to the old 
days at Princeton and the ties of friendship then formed 
seem to grow stronger as time goes on. 

"We were all very active during the war. I made many 
speeches in the State in behalf of the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. 
and other kindred associations, as well as in getting our 
people to subscribe liberally to the various Government 
bonds. I was chairman of the Legal Advisory Board in the 
City and a member of the Auxiliary Secret Service of the 
Government. During the war immense quantities of grain 
belonging to the Government were stored in this city, as 
well as many hogsheads of tobacco belonging to the English 
Government. We feared that our police were not able to 
protect this property, as well as our bridges, water works, 
factories, etc. To aid them we organized a Home Defense 
League with a membership of something over 2,000. We 
were equipped with arms and uniforms and took over the 
protection of the above described property as well as bring- 
ing to punishment every German sympathizer. I was made 
a Major and a great deal of work was done in that organi- 
zation. My wife and daughter were very active in the Red 
Cross work. My son, after going abroad in the Aviation 
Corps, was transferred to the Judge Advocate's Department 

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and then without solicitation was made First Assistant to 
the Military Attache at the Court of St. James. On the 
signing of the armistice he returned to civilian life. 
"I am still devoting my time to the practice of law. 
"With kindest regards, I am 

"Yours in the bonds of '76, 

"Jordan Stokes." 



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SCHOOL OF SCIENCE 

ISAAC WELLING COOLEY 

"In reply to your request for a report, I will state at first 
that I have never married, so that will answer questions 
4 and 5, and have received no titles or degrees, nor did I 
render any special service in the war. 

"I have been engaged actively in the manufacturing busi- 
ness, chiefly making Air Compressors. Three years ago I 
was taken down with a severe illness, on two occasions I 
was pronounced dead, but in spite of the half dozen physi- 
cians who attended me, and who were unable to diagnose my 
case, I have regained my former health, with the exception 
of frequent attacks of asthma. After my sickness I sold 
out my business and took a year's vacation. I am now and 
have been for two years in the office of the New York Ship- 
building Corporation of Camden, N. J. 

"Isaac Welling Cooley." 

HON. ROLLA WELLS, A.M. No report. 

In April, 1919, soon after he had retired from the po- 
sition of Governor of the Eighth Federal Reserve District, 
he was appointed receiver of the United Railways Com- 
pany, which operates the St. Louis street car system. 

The St. Louis Globe Democrat said: "Mr. Wells is 
thoroughly qualified by experience, operative and adminis- 
trative as well as financial, to undertake this task, and there 
is probably no man in St. Louis in whose integrity the pub- 
lic has greater confidence. The Court's own confidence is 

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strikingly displayed by his appointment without bond. Mr. 
Wells was brought up in the street railway business. His 
father was the founder of transportation service in this city 
and until his death in 1893 the son was associated with 
him in this and other enterprises. From 1879 to 1883 
Rolla Wells was directly connected with the operative side 
of the Street Railway Corporation, being general manager 
for a part of that time. His administration of the Federal 
Reserve Bank of St. Louis until his recent retirement has 
added much to his reputation." 



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VITAL STATISTICS 

In the 191 1 and 1916 Records will be found the lists of 
marriages of classmates, the children, their marriages, the 
grandchildren, and the deaths of classmates. Since the 
Reunion of 1916 the deaths have been as follows: 

GRADUATES— ACADEMIC 

Rev. Samuel Graham Wilson, D.D., July 2, 1916 

John Cook Latta Pugh, August 6, 1916 

Morris Nahum Johnson, September 30, 191 6 

Rev. William James McKittrick, D.D., December 13, 1916 

Rev. Leonard Walter Lott, May 10, 191 7 

John George Miller, April 13, 1918 

Rev. Irving Elisha White, October 28, 1918 

Frank Dunning, December 11, 1918 

William Bird Van Lennep, M.D., January 9, 1919 

Chandler White Riker, July 4, 1919 

Joseph McElroy Mann, November 17, 1919 

Hon. Hikoichi Orita, January 25, 1920 

Rev. Arthur Bloomfield Conger, September 5, 1920 

Hon. George Drake Scudder, March 9, 192 1 

Robert Wilson Patterson, May 30, 1921 

NON-GRADUATES 

Henry Duncan Oliphant, January 11, 1918 

John Conger, March 22, 1920 

Thomas Randolph Sheets, September 21, 1920 

In five year periods the deaths have been as follows : 

Ending in June.... '76 '81 '86 '91 '96 '01 '06 '11 '16 '21 
Deaths 2 7 6 7 3 4 7 9 12 18 

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The total membership of the Class is 157, distributed 
as follows: Graduates, Academic, no; School of Science, 
8; non-graduates, Academic, 37; School of Science, 2. 

Deceased: Academic, 49; School of Science, 5; non- 
graduates, Academic, 21. Total, 75. 

The living members of the Class number as follows : 
Academic, 61 ; School of Science, 3 ; non-graduates, Aca- 
demic, 16; School of Science, 2. Total, 82. 

Reports have been received for this Record concerning 
graduates, Academic, 57 ; School of Science, 3 ; non-gradu- 
ates, Academic, 12; School of Science, 1. Total, 73. For 
the Record of 1891 there were received 115 reports; 1896, 
120; 1 901, 115; 1906, 109; 191 1, 108; 1916, 86. 



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THE FORTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY 

The Reunion of '76 after 45 years out of college was 
marked by an inspiring growth of that spirit of intimacy and 
that increase of respect on the part of all our men for the 
others which have been the significant development of all 
our assemblies. Never before were our boys closer to one 
another and the whole Reunion glowed with brotherly af- 
fection and renewed love for old Nassau. 

Bonner, who has so long and so devotedly shouldered 
the responsibilities of the class presidency, rolled into 
Princeton on Thursday, June 16, and personally superin- 
tended the decorating of class headquarters, 31 Nassau St., 
the old Goldie house where we had so often met. The deco- 
rations were the best we ever had and were more elaborate 
than those of any other class headquarters. 

On Friday O. B. Brown, Ball, Perrine, Woods, Kauf- 
man, Cowart, Macky, Davis, Harrison, Bonner, Denny, 
Lytle, Wilson, Beach, J. A. L. Smith, Milburn and Barkley 
were present, and on Saturday Taylor, Slim Russell, Weart, 
Henry, Holden, J. A. ■ Robinson, E. P. Robinson, Yap 
Walker, Starr, Stewart, Eddy Lyon and Jenkins arrived. 
Sunday brought Woolverton and Monday Henderson, C. C. 
Fulton and W. A. Butler. 

The University theatrical organization, the Triangle Club, 
performed "They Never Come Back" on Friday and Satur- 
evenings and many of our boys attended. On Saturday 
morning the band arrived and at 12.30 our crowd of about 
50, members of the class, relatives and friends, took lunch- 
eon at the headquarters, where meals were served in ex- 
cellent style throughout the Reunion. At 1.30 we fell in 

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behind the band, marched to the campus and took our place 
in the P-rade to the ball grounds. Only '61 and '71 pre- 
ceded us. 

About 18,000 spectators were uplifted by our appearance 
in the P-rade which took over half an hour. Many classes 
wore astonishing costumes, but we were just '76 "as is." 
We had a bully time, for Princeton beat Yale 4 to 2. 

On Sunday some of the boys went to hear President 
Hibben's Baccalaureate, more went to the First Presby- 
terian Church to listen to "Variety" Beach, and two or 
three chased balls over the golf links. At 3.30 the corner- 
stone of the Moses Taylor Pyne dormitory was laid and 
most of us were there. Then we went with the rest to the 
cemetery and like many other classes placed a large floral 
piece on the grave of Princeton's great friend, "Momo" 
Pyne, of 'yy. 

This has since then been very appreciatingly acknow- 
ledged by Mrs. Pyne to her intimate friend, Wm. Allen 
Butler, in the following note : 

"Drumthwacket, Princeton, New Jersey. 
"My dear Mr. Butler: 

"Will you please convey to the Class of '76 my sons' and 
my very deep appreciation of their beautiful tribute paid 
to my husband's memory. 

"Very gratefully yours, 

"Margaretta S. Pyne." 

The Sunday evening religious service at headquarters 
was, as usual, one of the finest features of the Reunion. It 
was conducted by Bishop Collins Denny and most of those 
present contributed something. Billy Woolverton, in whose 
family there was sickness, was present for this service only. 
E. Robinson's familiarity with old time hymns made him 
a star song-leader. The service was a heart-to-heart affair, 

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and the boys just uncovered their feelings. The talks, 
hymns, prayers and confessions of faith were inspiring. 

On Monday at 10.30 a. m. the class was photographed 
on the steps of Nassau Hall. After that some of the boys 
went to the Class-Day Exercises, where Denny's son, Col- 
lins Denny, Jr., was Class Orator. 

At 4 P. M. a portrait of George Goldie, painted by our 
distinguished classmate, Howard Russell Butler, one of the 
foremost painters in the country, was presented to the chil- 
dren of George at headquarters. These children had most 
gracefully offered the free use of the house to the Class of 
which George was long ago made an honorary member. 
Bonner conceived the idea of presenting the portrait as an 
expression of the thanks of the Class, and, after consulta- 
tion with some of our members, carried out his plan in his 
usual efficient manner. He presented the picture with the 
following speech : 

"My dear friends, the members of the Class of '76 are 
assembled here to do their bit in perpetuating the memory of 
Princeton's first Athletic Instructor, our dear friend and 
honorary classmate, George Goldie. 

"George Goldie and I made our first appearance in 
Princeton on the same day, at the time of the opening of the 
old gymnasium in 1869. I had made his acquaintance a 
year before, and as my college days rolled on that acquaint- 
ance ripened into a true and warm friendship, a friendship 
lasting over fifty-two years. 

"George Goldie died February 23, 1920. It was the good 
fortune of 'Jeff' Davis and myself to spend with him the 
last two evenings, but one, of his life. He was in fine 
spirits and just reveled in going over the deeds of the good 
old days. George was proud of the fact that he returned 
to Princeton from the happy life he was leading as Athletic 
Instructor in the New York Athletic Club, in order to as- 

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George Goldie 
Princeton's First Athletic Director 

1869 to 191 1 

Presented to 
His Children by the Class of '76 

June 20, 1921 



sist in building the new gymnasium. He not only solicited 
subscriptions from his friends among the alumni, but gave 
a liberal cash contribution himself. He told us on one of 
those memorable evenings that it was his ambition to have 
the new gymnasium occupy the same position in the col- 
lege world of today that the old gymnasium did when it 
was built, namely, to be the finest college gymnasium in the 
country. He was consulted in all the practical details, and 
all apparatus for physical development was his own in- 
vention, and much of it actually made by himself. In his 
youth he was a cabinet maker. 

"On many occasions George Goldie showed his great ap- 
preciation of the fact that he had been elected an honorary 
member of the Class of '76. And that appreciation did not 
end with his death, but has descended to his children. Never 
in the history of Princeton has such generosity on the part 
of people living in Princeton been shown to the University 
or to any class, as that of George Goldie's children to the 
Class of '76. 

"Last fall when Mrs. Leigh wrote me that her sister, her 
brother and she herself wanted the Class of '76 to accept 
rent free this house for our 45th Reunion in memory of 
their father, it occurred to me that the members of the Class 
of '76 also would like to do something in memory of their 
dear friend and honorary classmate George Goldie. On 
thinking the matter over the idea of a portrait came to me, 
and Howard Russell Butler 'j6, one of America's foremost 
portrait painters, generously responded to my suggestion, 
and in a moment you will see how splendidly he has suc- 
ceeded in producing a striking likeness. 

"Now it is my great pleasure and privilege on behalf of 
the Class of '76 to present to George Goldie's children this 
portrait, to have and to hold as their own until the death of 
the last surviving child, and then to become the property of 

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the University and to be hung in the Trophy Room of the 
new Gymnasium. 'General' Harrison, kindly remove the 
sheet and you will reveal to our friends and classmates an 
excellent portrait of 'a face bearing the evidence of the 
interchange of those thousand little courtesies which im- 
perceptibly sweeten life and spread a mellow evening calm 
over the wrinkles of old age.' " 

It was the consensus of opinion that Butler had painted 
a lifelike and characteristic portrait and this was most 
heartily and appreciatively recognized by all the members 
of George's family who were present, children, grandchil- 
dren and one great-grandchild. The family expressed their 
desire that the portrait should eventually become the prop- 
erty of the University and be hung in the Trophy Room of 
the Gymnasium. 

After this function the boys all went to a reception given 
to them at her beautiful home by Mrs. R. D. Wilson, wife 
of "Bob" Wilson, a professor in the Seminary. 

The Class Dinner began at 8 o'clock on Monday night 
and ended at 2.15 A. M. on Tuesday. Those present were 
Ball, Barkley, Beach, Bonner, Oby Brown, W. A. Butler, 
Cowart, Davis, Denny, C. Fulton, Harrison, Henderson, 
Henry, Holden, Jenkins ("Judge" Jenkins of the Philip- 
pines), Ed. Lyon, Lytle, Macky, Milburn, Perrine, E. Rob- 
inson, J. Robinson, Russell, J. Smith, Stewart, Taylor, 
Walker, Weart, Wilson, Woods, just 30, a goodly showing 
indeed. Bonner presided and "Slim" Russell once more 
officiated as toast-master with his unfailing heartiness and 
kindly humor. The menu and list of toasts were as follows : 



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MENU 

"A good dinner sharpens the wit, while it softens the 
heart." — Dor an. 

"A good dinner is a very good thing." — Cervantes. 



Grapefruit with Maraschino Cherries 
"Most appetizing and grateful citrus." — Rorer. 

Hot Bouillon in cups 
"It's the rule of the house, sir ; you must take soup." 

— Demotte. 
Broiled Spanish Mackerel, Parsley Butter 
" 'Tis sweet and fresh — 'twas caught this night." 

— Beaumont and Fletcher. 
Radishes Scallions Cucumbers 

"Take every creature in of every kind." — Pope. 

Water Ice 
"I always thought cold victuals nice — 
My choice would be vanilla ice." — Holmes. 
Virginia Fried Chicken with Cream Gravy 
"We'll not eat crow, but him that crowed." — Anon. 

New Potatoes 
"New spuds are a great attraction." — Hagan. 
Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce 
"An agreeable and tasteful form of edible fungus." 

— Savarin. 
Neapolitan Ice Cream 
"Dainty mixture of frozen sweets." — Irwin. 

Assorted Cakes 
"A wilderness of sweets." — Milton. 
Toasted Crackers and Cheese 
"A last course at dinner without cheese is like a pretty 
woman with one eye." — Savarin. 

Coffee 
_"One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in de- 
light." — Milton. 

Salted Peanuts and Mints 
"He can't have any of my peanuts when his peanuts are 
gone." — Song. 

"I can teach sugar to slip down your throat a million of 
ways." — Dekker. 

Cigars 
"Give me a cigar." — Byron. 

"Be sure to light your cigar well and the recording angel 
will have less to do." — Flaherty. 

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TOASTS 

Robert E. Bonner, President 
Henry M. Russell, Toastmaster 

"Come, dear old comrade, you and I 
Will spend an hour from days gone by." 

— Holmes. 
"Five years since last we met has run its varied pace, 
"And grim old Time with noiseless step has stole another 
base." — Anon. 
Old Nassau and '76 Robert E. Bonner 

"We'll all unite to shout and sing 

Long life to Old Nassau." — Peck. 
"We shall see the angels fix 

Stars of gold in sapphire heavens-i7'-i876." 

— Henderson. 

Our Departed Classmates In Silence 

"Ah, comrades dear, are not all gathered here? 
Our hearts have answered yes, they hear our call : 
All gathered here! All! All!." — Holmes. 

Our Absent Classmates J. Frank Ball 

"Yet we'll end as we begun, 
For though scattered we are one." — Holmes. 

Christian Education in our Universities 

George B. Stewart 

"I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble 
education." — Milton. 

The Class Medicos M. Allen Starr 

"A doctor — good doctor — is the aide-de-camp of life." 

— Cow per. 

'76 on the Bench Oren Britt Brown 

"I have to meet judges so wise and so grand 
That I shake in my shoes while they're shaking my hand." 

— Holmes. 

Our Boys at the Bar Spencer Weart 

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"Why, gentlemen, we can not live without lawyers and 
we certainly can not die without them." — Choate. 

The Class in the Cloth Sylvester W. Beach 

"The Christian Ministry is the worst of all trades and 
the best of all professions." — Newton. 

'j6 Literary and Musical William J. Henderson 

"Begin to charm, and, as thou strokest mine ears 
With thine enchantment, melt me into tears. 
Then let thy active hand scud o'er the lyre 
And make my spirit frantic with the fire." — Herrick. 

Princeton at the Oars William Allen Butler 

"And all the way to guide their chime, 
With falling oars they kept the time." — Marvell. 

Princeton in the South Collins Denny 

"On Fame's eternal bead-roll worthy to be fyled." 

— Spenser. 
Our Editorial Classmates Lapsley G. Walker 

"Editors direct the current of thought." — Acton. 
Greater Princeton Bayard Henry 

" 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear ; 
Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew what it were." 

— Suckling. 
The Ladies Henry E. Davis 

"We admire them for their beauty, we respect them for 
their intelligence, adore them for their virtue and love them 
because we can not help it." — Gavette. 

"The years are fled, the gallant souls dispersed to face the 
varied calls of busy life, 
But certain this, while man with want is cursed, their place 
is foremost in the ceaseless strife." — Mabell. 
"While we've youth in our hearts we can never grow 
old." — Holmes. 

"Gude nicht and joy be wi' ye all." — Scott. 
"God be with you till we meet again." — Rankin. 

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Before the formal speechifying began "Jeff" Davis of- 
fered the following resolution, which was unanimously 
adopted : 

The Class of '76, in reunion at Princeton on the 
forty-fifth anniversary of its graduation, records 
its affectionate appreciation of the generosity of the 
children of its beloved adopted fellow-member 
George Goldie, in placing at the service of the Class 
the headquarters hallowed by so many of its fond- 
est associations and tenderest memories ; and the 
Secretary is instructed to communicate to its 
throughtful hosts this sincere, though inadequate, 
expression of its gratitude and regard. 

The Secretary then read the following poem that Pro- 
fessor Theodore W. Hunt had written for the occasion : 

A SALUTATION TO THE CLASS OF '76 

I 
Here's to '76, a class 

Whose sterling worth 'twere hard to surpass; 
No nobler group of college men 
On Princeton's campus has been seen. 

II 
Though five and forty years have gone 
Since leaving your old college home 
Still hale and hearty you appear 
Preserving youth each passing year. 

Ill 

Some of the class have failed to wed 
Choosing a bachelor's life instead, 
But even yet 'tis not too late 
For them to find a fitting mate, 

IV 
For them to heed their country's cry 
For all the sons they can supply 
And leave forthwith their celibate life 
By taking to them each a wife. 

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V 

For all the worthy work you've done, 
For all successes you have won, 
For these your Alma Mater gives 
Her richest blessing on your lives. 

VI 

Through days of sunshine and of shade 
Your spirits have been undismayed; 
You have played your part and held your place 
With generous rivals in the race. 

VII 
Some of your college mates have gone 
From earth to their eternal home; 
Think of your comrades gone before, 
Think of the happy days of yore, 

VIII 

Those happy days that came and went, 
The four short years in college spent. 
So Here's to '76 — Good Cheer 
Till you meet again in your fiftieth year! 

And Sam Cowart read his verses to 

THE SPIRIT OF '76 

Classmates, we meet at Old Nassau, 

To live again the days of yore 
And, as we stroll through Mem'ry's Halls, 

We wish indeed to part no more. 

Our tide of life is ebbing fast, 

The glorious sunset ray 
Shines o'er the boundless sea of life 

And decks the fading day. 

Suns and moons may wax and wane, 

The stars, their orbits fix, 
But still adown the aisles of time 

March the men of sev'nty-six. 

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Oh, Comrades, in the battle's strife, 
When bloody runs the field 

Lift high the Banner of the Cross 
And ne'er your spirits yield. 

Let courage be your watchword, 
When danger is in the strife, 

And weave the threads of virtue 
In the warp and woof of life. 

Oh, Boatmen of Old Nassau's Crew, 

You pulled a mighty oar 
And showed the Navy and Old Yale 

That you were "out for gore." 

And when the whole world quivered 
With the awful shock of war 

And the tocsin call, "To arms" 

Reached Columbia's farthest shore, 

To arms you sprang, like heroes all 

And lit the altar fires 
For many a bloody sacrifice 

For the lands of your sires. 

Then ever let Old Nassau's bell 

Ring out for Liberty 
And Nassau's Sons stand ever firm 

For the Prince of Calvary. 

And, as we climb the heights of time 

And catch the distant view, 
Where starry worlds, in splendor shine, 

Amid the Heaven's blue, 

May God, in His abounding grace, 
Through all the realms of space, 

Bestow, on all the human race, 
The blessing of His Peace. 

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"Slim" got three rousing cheers when he arose to pro- 
pose the first toast, and he reminded us of the debt of grati- 
tude we owed Bonner and Harrison for the work they had 
done for our Reunion. 

In responding to the toast of "Old Nassau and '76" Bon- 
ner said that the former was the birthplace of the latter and 
of the spirit of liberty. In Princeton's history there had 
been two great periods, those of Witherspoon and McCosh. 
He thought one of Jimmy's greatest achievements was 
stimulating the formation of alumni associations. He told 
how '76 had introduced the present manner of P-rading 
before the Commencement ball game by being the first class 
to march to the grounds with a band. The management 
said it could not be done, but the Czar just went ahead and 
did it. He said also that '76 was the first class that had a 
house for Headquarters at Commencement, and, under Mac 
Mann's pitching, the first class that had a no-hit, no-run 
game, a record made by no pitcher, professional or ama- 
teur, before that time. 

Holden briefly expressed the appreciation of the non- 
graduate members of the Class, who had all been made per- 
manent members, or, as Bonner had phrased it, "once a 
'76 man always a '76 man." 

"Bloody" Ball had a hard time trying to say something 
for the absent members. In fact he declared there was 
nothing he could say for such men. 

"Paley" Stewart defined Christian education as the teach- 
ing of truth on which to found life. The religion of to-day 
he saw affected by turmoil, unrest, uncertainty and rebel- 
lion against authority. He was opposed to prohibition as 
legislating police regulations into the Constitution. That 
set a bad example to radicals, who would try to make other 
radical amendments. He found the same tendency in edu- 
cation, where precepts were taking the place of principles, 

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while religion was becoming a sentiment rather than a 
practice of morality on the basis of the New Testament. 

Starr being absent Billy Butler at this point told the story 
of Princeton's early days in rowing and presented this 
testimonial to M. Taylor Pyne '77: 

At this forty-fifth anniversary of the Class of 
1876, the recent death of Mr. Pyne comes very 
close to us, and we who were so near and intimate 
with him in college days desire to record our ap- 
preciation of him, as one whom we not only deeply 
respected and loved before we graduated, but in- 
creasingly so as the years rolled on. 

He illustrated, better than any other man of our 
day and of any subsequent year, the "Princeton 
Spirit." 

We who roomed near him in the South Entry 
of Old East, recall vividly his college career; his 
noble character; his courtesy; his lively interest in 
all the departments and activities of the then col- 
lege life. 

The group who lived in "South East" were all 
ardent Princetonians, but the leader who above all 
inspired them, was "Mo" Pyne, as he was affec- 
tionately called by his contemporaries. 

As a Columbia Law School graduate, as a rail- 
road lawyer, as a man of affairs, as a director in 
many corporations, he developed into a well-round- 
ed man. 

He had the opportunity to enlarge his profes- 
sional, business and financial interests indefinitely, 
but he chose for his life work the interest of 
Princeton. 

He became a member of the Board of Trustees 
in 1885, and for thirty-six years gave the best that 
was in him for Princeton. His record for atten- 
dance at the Trustee meetings was unsurpassed. 
He had a genius for service. It was the daily work 
on standing committees ; the clear vision of what 
was needed; the interests of Princeton deep-rooted 

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in his heart that made him such a power of strength 
for our beloved Alma Mater. 

In 1895 Mr. Pyne selected "Drumthwacket" as 
his Princeton home. Here he and his devoted wife 
hospitably entertained their friends. Hundreds of 
students received a warm welcome there. 

Mr. Pyne's memory for the names of students, 
his continued interest in their careers, was phe- 
nomenal. It would be difficult, if not impossible, to 
find in the annals of any great university a man 
who brought such deep interest, ripe experience 
and wisdom into its councils. 

It is a solace to think that he received part of 
his reward in his lifetime. In this connection it 
can be truly said that the greatest asset he pos- 
sessed was the respect, friendship and love of his 
college mates. A new dormitory will bear his name, 
and his memory will ever be an inspiration to all 
having the interests of their Alma Mater at heart. 

O. B. Brown gave an interesting history of the work of 
reconstruction after the Dayton flood. 

Weart devoted most of his speech to a character sketch of 
our classmate Riker. He also declared that money making 
was keeping a number of able men from doing public duty. 

"Variety" said "Slim" had asked him to treat his theme 
with wit, wisdom and knowledge. He had neither wit nor 
wisdom, but he did know some things and one was that 
no man ought to go into the ministry without a distinct call. 

"Hendy" told about the decline of literature and music 
under the influence of the commercial spirit, and said that 
there was a new renaissance in Italy, where a school of 
young composers with high artistic ideals had lately risen. 

Denny spoke eloquently of the reasons why southern men 
had gone to Princeton in her early days. They had been 
attracted by her wide reputation for scholarship and her 
reputation for service. He warmly expressed his gratitude 
for the benefit he had received from Princeton ideals. 

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"Yap" Walker paid his respects to prohibition, and told 
of his battles for equality of the negro before the law. He 
wished he were a "cub" reporter, assigned to report the 
evening's speeches, which sounded as the keynote of the 
reunion faith and zeal. 

Bayard Henry told the boys what had been done since 
our last Reunion in the development of the University and 
indicated what was immediately ahead. He discussed at 
some length the problem of limiting the size of the student 
body. 

"Jeff" discussed the ladies seriously from the point of 
view of suffrage. Its acquisition disclosed the need of edu- 
cating the ignorant majority. Women were in the process 
of remaking and "Jeff" believed that the future of the coun- 
try was in their hands ; but, he said, "we can depend on their 
great qualities." 

On Tuesday many left in the morning, but a dozen were 
at the alumni luncheon and went later to the reception given 
by President and Mrs. Hibben. The weather throughout 
the Reunion was beautiful and the boys so much enjoyed 
being together that some of them took long moonlight walks 
late at night. Altogether the regathering of the Class was 
a memorable event. 

A notable expression of loyalty was the contribution to- 
wards expenses of $698 by members of the Class who knew 
they could not be present at the Reunion. 

WILLIAM H. TAFT AND '76 

While Bonner with his family was spending last winter 
in Bermuda he saw former President Taft frequently and 
gave him a very cordial invitation to lunch with the Class 
on June 18, before the Yale game, which Mr. Taft tenta- 

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tively accepted. His inability to be present is explained in 
the following letter : 

"New Haven, Connecticut, 

"May 31, 1921. 
"My dear Mr. Bonner : 

"I have your kind note of May 30th. I don't think I am 
likely to be Chief Justice, but I am glad to have your good 
wishes. I regret exceedingly that I am not to be in New 
Haven on the 4th of June or in the country. I am leaving 
to-morrow for Montreal, where I expect to be the whole 
month of June, with the exception possibly of a visit to 
New Haven on the 22nd to attend our Commencement, and 
the installation of our new President. It would gratify me 
very much to attend your Yale luncheon and to represent 
Yale there, as you indicate in your notice to your class- 
mates, but this engagement of mine is of long standing. We 
are completing an arbitration which has consumed the bet- 
ter part of a year of my time, and I must be on hand. I 
wish for you in your 45th Anniversary all the joy that I 
know will be yours, and wish that you may have many more 
lustrums in your class meetings. 

"Thanking you for the honor of the invitation, which I 
very much appreciate, believe me 

"Sincerely yours, 
"Wm. H. Taft." 
Mr. Robert E. Bonner, 
Hampton Terrace, 
Lenox, Mass. 

After the Reunion Bonner sent Mr. Taft a '76 pennant 
and a Yale blue pennant with the numeral '78, that being 
the latter's class, with this explanation : "Mementoes of the 
occasion that did not occur. Pennants that we had hoped 



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you would carry in the '76 parade at Princeton, June 18, 
1921. 

"Robert E. Bonner, 

"President of '76." 
With this acknowledgment: 

"Ritz Carlton Hotel, 

"Montreal, Canada, 
"June 24, 192 1. 
"My dear Mr. Bonner : 

"I thank you for your kindness in sending the '76 and 
'78 pennants. I am sure you had a good time at your class 
meeting. I wish I could have enjoyed the hospitality you 
had prepared for me so kindly. 

"I hope our paths will soon cross again. With best wishes, 

"Sincerely yours, 

"Wm. H. Taft." 



GEORGE GOLDIE 

Our instructor in gymnastics, friend and adopted class- 
mate died on February 23, 1920, at his home in Princeton 
of heart failure. He was associated with Princeton ath- 
letics for over a third of a century. In 1868 Dr. James 
McCosh came to Princeton and among the plans he advo- 
cated strongly was that of a gymnasium, for which funds 
were soon contributed by Robert Bonner and Henry G. 
Marquand. 

George Goldie, at that time a well-known athlete in Mon- 
treal, was engaged to take charge of the athletics at Prince- 
ton, and his brother also came as proctor. George began 
his work with enthusiasm, extending his interest to all 
branches of physical exercise. In 1873 he inaugurated 
track athletic meets, which have ever since been known as 
Caledonian Games, in honor of George Goldie who held the 

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Caledonian championship for all-round athletics. He or- 
ganized Princeton's first amateur athletic association in the 
same year and for two years was its president. In the 
gymnasium he taught many daring feats while carefully 
guarding the performers from physical injury. Many ath- 
letic appliances were invented by him, some of them being 
adopted by other colleges without due credit given. In his 
sixties he could still do the giant swing. 

In 1885 George became physical director of the New 
York Athletic Club, remaining there until 1893, when he 
returned to his former position at Princeton and continued 
to be director of gymnastics until his retirement at the age 
of seventy. The Goldie Field was named in his honor. 
George was a guest of the Class at the 191 1 Reunion Dinner, 
and on Bonner's nominating him for honorary membership 
in the Class, he was unanimously and enthusiastically elected 
by a rising vote. The Class of '70 also elected him to 
membership. He was present at our Class Dinner in 19 16 
and also attended some of the dinners of the "Seventies and 
Before" in New York. 

Princeton men who had known George Goldie at all well 
rarely visited the University without giving him a call, and 
they always found him as young in spirit and with as hearty 
a welcome as when in full charge of the gymnasium. 

At the funeral services on February 25, Bonner was pres- 
ent representing the Class, and brought a large wreath bear^ 
ing the words "Fellow Member of '76." 

Mrs. Sarah Green Duffield, widow of Prof. John T. Duf- 
field and mother of our classmate John F. Duffield, died No- 
vember 21, 1920, in the ninety-third year of her age. 

DR. GEORGE MACLOSKIE 
Dr. Macloskie died at his home in Princeton January 4, 
1920. Born at Castledawson, Ireland, September 14, 1834, 

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and was graduated at Queen's University, Belfast, in 1857, 
the Gold Medalist for the year. In 1861 he was ordained 
a minister of the Presbyterian Church and served as a 
pastor until 1874. Having devoted considerable time to the 
study of science and other subjects, in 1868 he received the 
degree of Bachelor of Law from the University of London, 
and three years later that of LL.D., from the same uni- 
versity. From the University of Ireland he received the 
honorary degree of Doctor of Science. 

Dr. Macloskie was one of those brought to Princeton by 
Dr. McCosh to aid him in developing the scientific side of 
the curriculum. He was made Professor of Biology in 1875 
and lectured on botany and natural history, also gave ad- 
vanced elective courses. In 1906, after a service of over 
thirty years he was made Professor Emeritus. He wrote 
several books on scientific subjects, and read widely on 
legal and philosophical lines. He was a devoted member 
of the church, warm-hearted, sympathetic, generous and 
affectionate. 



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CLASS ROLL 

Dudley S. Anness, 518A Halsey St., Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Hon. J. Frank Ball, 205 Equitable Building; 1019 Park 

Place, Wilmington, Del. 
Rev. James M. Barkley, D. D., LL.D., 1156 Edison Ave., 

Detroit, Mich. 
Rev. Sylvester W. Beach, D.D., Study of First Presbyterian 

Church, Princeton, N. J. 
Rev. Thomas Cumming Beattie, '78, died September 22, 

1913. 
Henry Rush Biddle, died January 3, 1877. 

Lieut. Jonathan Williams Biddle, died September 30, 1877. 

Robert Edwin Bonner, 131 East 46th St., New York City; 

Lenox, Mass. 
Charles Froome Bragg, left during Freshman Year. Died 

February 2.2., 1890. 
Hon. Harrington Brown, 3975 South Vermont Ave., Los 

Angeles, Cal. 
John P. Brown, 597 Fifth Ave., New York City ; 243 War- 
burton Ave., Yonkers, N. Y. 
Hon. Oren Britt Brown, 617 City National Bank Building; 

316 Schantz Ave., Dayton, Ohio. 
John Kerfoot Bryden, left during Sophomore Year. Died 

June 5, 1907- 
Howard Russell Butler, 107 Library Place, Princeton, N. J. 
William Allen Butler, 54 Wall St. ; 30 East 72nd St., New 

York City. 
John G. Cecil, M.D., died December 12, 1913. 
Rev. Arthur B. Chaffee, D.D., 6430 Ellis Ave., Chicago, 111. 

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Rev. William Nesbitt Chambers, D.D., Adana, Cilicia, or 

Care of American Board of Commissioners for Foreign 

Missions, Boston, Mass. 
Rev. Charles B. Chapin, D.D., 163 Mills Ave., Spartanburg, 

S. C. 
Rev. Harrison Clarke, 1250 Acoma St., Denver, Colorado. 
William Allan Cleland, died February 27, 1913. 
Rev. Arthur B. Conger, died September 5, 1920. 
John Conger, left in Sophomore Year. Died March 22, 

1920. 
Frank Davenport Cook, died December — , 1887. 
Isaac W. Cooley, left at end of Sophomore Year; office of 

New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, N. J. ; 

3939 Powelton Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Alfred C. Coursen, Box 377, Huntington, L. I., N. Y. 
Hon. Bryant O. Cowan, 401 Ninth St., Santa Monica, Cal. 
Samuel C. Cowart, Freehold, New Jersey. 
Brodie Jackman Crawford, died July 27, 1883. 
Hon. Clarence Cuningham, Waterloo, Laurens Co., S. C. 
Bernard Charles Cuvellier, left during Sophomore Year. 

Died May 8, 1905. 
Hon. Henry E. Davis, LL.D., Wilkins Building; 1931 Nine- 
teenth St., N. W., Washington, D. C. 
Augustus H. Dellicker, left during Sophomore Year. Died 

October 12, 1915. 
Bishop Collins Denny, 1619 Park Ave., Richmond, Va. 
James Sears Dickinson, left during Sophomore Year. Died 

February 26, 1876. 
Rev. Elliott L. Dresser, 377 South Broadway, Yonkers, N. 

Y. 
John Fletcher Duffield, M.D., died March 14, 1912. 
Frank Dunning, died December 11, 1918. 
Richard A. Edwards, Peru, Indiana. 
Thomas Ireland Elliott, died December 5, 1915- 

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E. Stiles Ely, left at the end of Freshman Year; Lyme, 
Conn. 

Rev. Charles Page Emerson, left during Sophomore Year. 
Died January 19, 1887. 

Rev. Edward Charles Evans, D.D., died October 23, 1912. 

George Fielding Ficklen, died May 10, 1877. 

Lieut. Leighton Finley, died February 12, 1894. 

Charles Dufief Fowler, The Rochambeau, Washington, D. C. 

Rev. Albert Andrew Fulton, D.D., Canton, China. 

Cecil C. Fulton, left at the end of Sophomore Year; 102 
South Bradford St., Dover, Del. 

Alexander B. Gillespie, Rock River, Wyoming. 

Samuel Bartow Greene, died May 10, 1904. 

Rev. Prof. William Brenton Greene, Jr., D.D., 60 Stock- 
ton St., Princeton, N. J. 

William W. Green, left during Sophomore Year; 120 
Broadway, New York City. 

Cornelius Cuyler Gregory, died December 4, 1901. 

Rev. Hiram Philetus Hamilton, died August 20, 1905. 

Rev. Robert Wilson Hamilton, M.A., The Fort Manse, 
Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland. 

Henry L. Harrison, 755 Madison Ave. ; 101 East 92nd St., 
New York City. 

Charles Hartridge, died November 23, 1882. 

John Aycrigg Hegeman, M.D., died September 23, 1908. 

William J. Henderson, 123 West 44th St., New York City. 

Hon. Bayard Henry, 2231-42 Land Title Building, Phila- 
delphia; West Walnut Lane, Germantown, Pa. 

Edward P. Holden, left in Freshman Year ; Madison, N. J. 

Hon. James C. Jenkins, 536 West 158th St., New York City. 

Morris N. Johnson, died September 30, 1916. 

Major Richard W. Johnson, M.D., U.S.A., 1546 South St. 
Andrews Place, Los Angeles, Cal. 



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Robert W. Johnson, M.D., 101 West Franklin St., Balti- 
more; "Rockland," Brooklandville, Md. 

David B. Jones, 1116 Marquette Building, Chicago, 111. 

Thomas D. Jones, 11 16 Marquette Building; 1435 Astor 
St., Chicago, 111. 

Harry Backus Kaufman, 'jj, died December 27, 1882. 

William T. Kaufman, 32 Nassau St., New York City.; 531 
West Seventh St., Plainfield, N. J. 

Rev. George Knox, D.D., died December 19, 1912. 

Allen Taylor Kyle, left in Freshman Year. Died April 5, 
1889. 

Rev. Washington R. Laird, Ph.D., left in Sophomore Year ; 
330 West Miner St., West Chester, Pa. 

Mirven F. Leason, left in Junior Year. Died May 29, 1909. 

Rev. Robert Todd Liston, Jacksonville, Ala. 

Jay Henry Long, died August 28, 1913. 

Rev. Leonard Walter Lott, died May 10, 191 7. 

Rev. James Walter Lowrie, D.D., 20 Museum Road, Shang- 
hai, China. 

Edward D. Lyon, Ph.D., 253 Shady Ave., East Liberty, 
Pittsburgh, Pa., or University Club, New York City. 

John G. Lyon, left in Sophomore Year; 810 Commonwealth 
Building; Kenmawr Hotel, Pittsburgh, Pa. 

Richard R. Lytle, M.D., 160 Claremont Ave., New York 
City. 

John G. Macky, left at end of Sophomore Year ; 1643 Had- 
don Ave., Camden, N. J. ; 3614 Hamilton St., Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 

Harold Mann, left in Junior Year. Died July 31, 1889. 

Joseph McElroy Mann, died November 17, 1919. 

Lt. Col. Hamilton Markley, left in Freshman Year. Died 
April 4, 1900. 

Francis Hartman Markoe, M.D., died September 13, 1907. 

Frederick Alexander Marquand, died December 20, 1885. 

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Lincoln Wood Marston, Jr., left in Sophomore Year. Died 
November 16, 1873. 

George Burnham Martin, died April 29, 1896. 

Rev. William James McKittrick, D.D., LL.D., died Decem- 
ber 13, 1916. 

Robert Hasell McKoy, died October 29, 1901. 

William Berry McKoy, 402 South Third St., Wilmington, 
N. C. 

Samuel Davis Melton, died December 10, 1880. 

Rev. Page Milburn, Trade Mark Division, U. S. Patent 
Office; 311 Rock Creek Church Road, Washington, 
D. C. 

John George Miller, died April 13, 1918. 

John Mills, left in Freshman Year. 

Charles Talbot Mitchell, left in Sophomore Year. Died 
September 13, 1887. 

David Jay Murphy, Jr., left in Junior Year. Died July 
4, 1880. 

Thomas Alexander Noble, died February 10, 1907. 

Henry Duncan Oliphant, left in Junior Year. Died Janu- 
ary 11, 1918. 

Hon. Hikoichi Orita, died January 25, 1920. 

Frederick Parker, died August 17, 1907. 

George Dubois Parmly, M.D., died December 29, 1889. 

Robert Wilson Patterson, died May 30, 1921. 

William Pearson, left in Freshman Year; 2 North Court 
St.; 27 South Front St., Harrisburg, Pa. 

David Vanderveer Perrine, 55 West Main St., Freehold, 
N.J. 

Rev. William Edgar Plumley, died May 14, 1901. 

Hon. Andrew Price, left in Freshman Year. Died Febru- 
ary 5, 1909. 

Hon. John Cook Latta Pugh, died August 6, 1916. 

Martin Ralph, left in Freshman Year; j6 Terrace Ave., 
Jamaica, N. Y. 

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Rev. Harris G. Rice, De Graff, Ohio. 
Hon. Chandler White Riker, died July 4, 1919. 
Alden K. Riley, Tulsa, Oklahoma. 

John P. Roberts, left in Sophomore Year; Box 246, Cam- 
bria, Wis. 
Rev. Edwin P. Robinson, Dauphin, Pa., or Y. M. C. A., 

Harrisburg, Pa. 
James A. Robinson, left in Freshman Year; 917 Empire 

Building; 6209 Howe St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Joseph M. Roseberry '77, left in Freshman Year ; Belvidere, 

N.J. 
Robert Jacob Ross, died April 10, 1879. 
Wilber F. Rudy, care of Dr. F. T. Rudy, Champaign, 111. 
Henry M. Russell, Hamilton, New York. 
Rev. Harris Rogers Schenck,, died June 21, 1898. 
Hon. George Drake Scudder, died March 9, 1921. 
Thomas Randolph Sheets, left in Freshman Year. Died 

September 21, 1920. 
Rev. Lebbeus J. Shoemaker, New Castle, Pa., Route 7, 

Gardner. 
Oscar A. Sloan, left in Sophomore Year; 695 Washington 

St., Monticello, Fla. 
Charles Robinson Smith, died May 12, 1916. 
Franklin Buchanan Smith, M.D., died November 5, 1912. 
Frank Safford Smith, died September 19, 1903. 
Rev. J. A. Livingston Smith, 325 East King St., York, Pa. 
William McBath Smith, left at end of Junior Year; 432 

Pierce Building ; 5343 Maple Ave., St. Louis, Mo. 
M. Allen Starr, M.D., LL.D., Sc.D., 5 West 54th St., New 

York City. 
Rev. A. Russell Stevenson, D.D., 6 Union St., Schenectady, 

N. Y. 
William P. Stevenson, 128 Fifth Ave., Roselle, New Jersey. 
Rev. George B. Stewart, D.D., LL.D., President's House, 

Theological Seminary, Auburn, N. Y. 

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Jordan Stokes, left at end of Junior Year; 631 Stahlman 

Building; 1713 West End Ave., Nashville, Tenn. 
Jonathan R. Sweet, left in Freshman Year. Died June 3, 

1897. 

Henry Clues Symmes, M.D., died May 8, 1914. 

J. Madison Taylor, M.D., 1504 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

Prof. Henry A. Todd, Ph.D., Columbia University; 824 

West End Ave., New York City. 
Robert N. Todd, died November 18, 1906. 
Arthur B. Turnure, died April 13, 1906. 
Rev. Albert Van Deusen, died January 10, 1886. 
John S. Van Dike, Allentown, New Jersey. 
William Bird Van Lennep, M.D., died January 9, 1919. 
Lapsley G. Walker, Chattanooga Times Office; 409 Pine 

St., Chattanooga, Tenn. 
Lewis M. Walker, died May 10, 1878. 
Rev. DeLacey Wardlaw, Buena Vista Station, Route 2, 

Box 420, Miami, Florida. 
Rev. Beverley Ellison Warner, D.D., LL.D., left at end of 

Sophomore Year. Died November 27, 19 10. 
Spencer Weart, 273 Washington St., Jersey City; New 

Brunswick, N. J., R. F. D. No. 6. 
Henry Horace Webster, died January 17, 1891. 
Hon. Rolla Wells, left in Sophomore Year; 509 Olive St.; 

200 North Broadway, St. Louis, Mo. 
Rev. Irving Elisha White, died October 28, 1918. 
Hon. William H. Whittlesley, Valdez, Alaska. 
Rev. Prof. Robert Dick Wilson, D.D., 73 Stockton St., 

Princeton, N. J. 
Rev. Samuel Graham Wilson, D.D., died July 2, 1916. 
Hon. Joseph M. Woods, Lewistown, Mifflin Co., Pa. 
Warren Woodward, died December 3, 1881. 
Rev. William H. Woolverton, "Wolverstone," Stockton, 

N.J. 

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